Physics:List of things named after Albert Einstein

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This is a list of things named after Albert Einstein.

Scientific and mathematical concepts

Technology

  • Einstein refrigerator
  • Tatung Einstein, an eight-bit home/personal computer
  • Einstein Observatory, the first fully imaging X-ray telescope
  • Einstein Telescope, a future third generation gravitational wave detector
  • Albert Einstein ATV, a European unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft

Schools

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, The Bronx, New York City
  • The Albert Einstein Mathematics Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  • Albert Einstein Academy Charter School, San Diego, California
  • Albert Einstein High School, Kensington, Maryland
  • Albert Einstein Intermediate (later Junior High) School, aka I.S. 131, The Bronx, New York City
  • Albert-Einstein-Schule, a German gymnasium in Bochum, Germany
  • Albert Einstein International School of San Pedro Sula, a college preparatory school in San Pedro Sula, Honduras
  • A high school named after Albert Einstein in Ben Shemen Youth Village, Israel
  • Einstein School in Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Einstein Primary School, Haifa, Israel
  • Albert Einstein School, a German gymnasium in Groß-Bieberau
  • Grammar School of Albert Einstein, Bratislava, Slovakia

Streets

Buildings

  • Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Einstein metro station, on the Santiago Metro, in Santiago, Chile
  • Einstein Tower, astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany
  • Albert Einstein House, a National Historic Landmark in Princeton, New Jersey

Arts and entertainment

  • Einstein's Dreams, a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman
  • Einstein's Monsters, a collection of short stories by Martin Amis
  • Little Einsteins, an animated television series for children
  • Baby Einstein, a line of toys and multimedia products for very young children
  • The Einstein Factor, an Australian TV game show hosted by Peter Berner
  • Professor Albert Einstein, a character in the video game Command & Conquer
  • Einstein on the Beach, an opera in four acts, scored by Philip Glass and directed by theatrical producer Robert Wilson.
  • Einstein, a Swiss television infotainment serial
  • Einstein, a German television series
  • Einstein Gargoyle, a gargoyle at University of Oregon

Awards

  • Albert Einstein World Award of Science, a yearly award given by the World Cultural Council
  • Albert Einstein Award, an award in theoretical physics endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund
  • Albert Einstein Medal, presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern, Switzerland, to people who have "rendered outstanding services" in connection with Albert Einstein, since 1979
  • Einstein Prize for Laser Science, international physics award
  • Einstein Prize (APS), a biennial prize, awarded by the American Physical Society since 2003

Other

  • 2001 Einstein, an asteroid.
  • Bohr–Einstein debates, a series of epistemological challenges and responses by Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr
  • Einstein's Blackboard, Oxford, England (1931)
  • Russell–Einstein Manifesto, issued in 1955 by Bertrand Russell in the midst of the Cold War
  • Einstein–Szilárd letter, a letter sent to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in August 1939
  • Einstein Symposium, on the centennial of the "Annus Mirabilis"
  • Rebutia einsteinii, a cactus named after Einstein by its finder, Alberto Vojtěch Frič
  • Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization studying methods of non-violent resistance
  • Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative Fund, a scholarship fund for refugees
  • Einstein (crater), a large lunar crater that lies along the western limb of the Moon
  • Einsteinium, an element
  • Zebra Puzzle, also known as Einstein's Puzzle or Riddle
  • The Einstein Field, the final stage of the FIRST Robotics Competition.

See also

  • Albert Einstein in popular culture