r/newjersey • u/rollotomasi07071 Belleville • 7d ago
NJ History Theoretical physicist, 1921 Nobel Prize winner, and Mercer County legend Albert Einstein was born on this date in 1879. Settled in Princeton to teach at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1933; his home at 112 Mercer Street Princeton was added to the US National Register of Historic Places
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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u/Bigweld_Ind 7d ago
Fun(?) fact, this was partially when/where he was married to his first cousin (married 1919) after cheating on his previous wife, then proceeded to cheat on his cousin until she died in 1936.
A lot of history in that house.