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Why was Einstein allowed in the US?

AgaBoogaBoo

AgaBoogaBoo

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My history book says he was one of the 100,000 refugees the US accepted from Germany.

Was he known for his knowledge and the things he did at the time? If not, why was he allowed to come when there were many more that were much more prominent?
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
My history book says he was one of the 100,000 refugees the US accepted from Germany.

Was he known for his knowledge and the things he did at the time? If not, why was he allowed to come when there were many more that were much more prominent?
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Didn't he go back and forth? Or was that someone else?
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
My history book says he was one of the 100,000 refugees the US accepted from Germany.

Was he known for his knowledge and the things he did at the time? If not, why was he allowed to come when there were many more that were much more prominent?
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Didn't he go back and forth? Or was that someone else?
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Not sure, but if I was him I wouldn't go back at least until WWII was over
 
He was snuck out and he was well known in the scientific world by then. As to the OP - I have no idea, he might have called in favors or maybe his friends looked out for him.
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: Legendary
Um...Einstein published some big stuff (not relativity big, but kinda big) before he left Europe.
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Ah, alright, that makes sense then

Thanks 🙂
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Yeah, he was a pretty well-known scientist at the time. I think those with science/technical backgrounds also got priority.
 
If I'm not mistaken he got a noble prize in the 20's for his 1905 photoelectric effect paper. He also had two other huge papers that year, special relativity and brownian motion or something. I'm sure someone else could explain more about it, but yeah, he was really big by WWII.
 
In 1905 he published four brilliant papers in the Annalen der Physik which were to transform twentieth-century scientific thought. He established the special theory of relativity, predicted the equivalence of mass (m) and energy (e) according to the equation e = mc2, where (c) represents the velocity of light; he created the theory of Brownian motion and founded the photon theory of light (photoelectric effect) for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1921.

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During the 1920s Einstein travelled widely in Europe, America and Asia and identified himself with various public causes such as pacifism, Zionism, the League of Nations and European unity. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Einstein was in California and he never returned to Germany, being almost immediately deprived of his posts in Berlin and his membership of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

His property was seized and a price put on his head by Nazi fanatics...

from http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/einstein.html

 
I belive the US wanted him to help develop the Atomic bomb. But originally he said no but agreed after he realized if they didn't create one, germany would. Speculation of course.

But he was a very prominante scientist prior to his US days.
 
Einstein in US - US Bomb

Einstein in Nazi Germany - German and Japanese Bomb


He held some of the most powerful physics secrets in the world. Sure, he really didn't do much for the US bomb effort, but getting him out of there was imperative.
 
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