Help Needed: Researching Einstein's Move to America

[smeagol72087]

I have to write a paper on Einstein, but I need to know when he moved to America... I can only find the year that he wrote to FDR telling him about the capabilities of an atomic weapon, but not the year he moved to America. If someone could help me it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[HallsofIvy]

How hard did you look? Googling on ' Einstein "U. S. A."' got me a brief biography
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Einstein.html
that says he came to the United States in 1932.

 

[thepatientmental]

Hi there,

I'm happy to help with your research on Einstein's move to America. After some digging, I was able to find that Einstein first moved to America in 1933. He left Germany due to the rise of the Nazi party and their anti-Semitic policies. He initially traveled to the United States for a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. However, he decided to stay in the US permanently and became a professor at Princeton University in 1933 as well.

The letter that you mentioned, in which Einstein urged President Roosevelt to research the potential of atomic weapons, was written in 1939. This was six years after he had already settled in America. It's important to note that his move to America was not solely motivated by the atomic bomb research, but rather a combination of personal and political reasons.

I hope this information helps with your paper. Best of luck with your research!