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The Jewish Hall of Fame

A small museum of
an improbable people.

There are fewer than sixteen million Jews alive — around two in every thousand people on earth. This is a room for some of them: the physicists and philosophers, the physicians, painters and pitchers.

Just how few is that?

Portrait of Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein

1879 – 1955

Recast our understanding of space, time and gravity with special and general relativity, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining the photoelectric effect. Fled Germany in 1933 and spent his later years at Princeton, campaigning for civil rights and nuclear restraint.

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In the collection

Ordered by birth, from eleventh-century Troyes to twentieth-century Brooklyn.

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