Witness History: Witness Archive 2015 - The Death of Einstein

The Nobel prize winning physicist and father of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, died on 18th April 1955. Witness talks to the son of one of Einstein's closest friends, Gustav Born, about the science and the humanity of the 20th-century's greatest scientific thinker.

Photo: Albert Einstein in January 1950 (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2015.

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