The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental bronze statue depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. It is located in central Washington, D.C., United States, in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue, near to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Assorted ancient bronze castings found as part of a cache, probably intended for recycling. ... Albert Einstein, photographed in 1947 by Oren J. Turner. ... Flag Seal Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... President Harding and the National Academy of Sciences at the White House, Washington, DC, April 1921 The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine. ... In Washington, D.C., Constitution Avenue is a major east-west street running just north of the United States Capitol in the citys Northwest and Northeast quadrants. ... The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial located in Washington, D.C. that honors members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. ...

The statue was sculpted by Robert Berks in 19 sections and then welded together. It weighs 7,000 pounds (3.2 metric tons) and would stand 21 feet (6.4 m) high. The statue sits on a bench that is white granite from Mount Airy, North Carolina. Robert Berks, an American sculptor, created hundreds of bronze sculptures and monuments including the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial and the Albert Einstein memorial in Washington, D.C. Another of his statues, that of the Swedish botanist and physician Carolus Linnaeus, can be found in the Heritage Garden of the Chicago... The pound is the name of a number of units of mass, all in the range of 300 to 600 grams. ... A tonne (also called metric ton) is a non-SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne = 103 kg (= 106 g). ... A foot (plural: feet) is any of several old units of distance or length, measuring around a quarter to a third of a meter. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... Mount Airy is the name of several places in the United States of America: Mount Airy, Georgia Mount Airy, Louisiana Mount Airy, Maryland Mount Airy, Nevada Mount Airy, New Jersey Mount Airy, New York Mount Airy, North Carolina Mount Airy, Ohio Mount Airy, Pennsylvania (four places): in Clarion County two... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 500 miles (805 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 9. ...

The statue and bench are at one side of a circular dais, 28 feet (8.5 m) in diameter, made from emerald-pearl granite from Larvik, Norway. Embedded in the dais are more than 2,700 metal studs representing the location of astronomical objects (Sun, Moon, planets, 4 asteroids, 5 galaxies, 10 quasars, and many stars) at noon on April 22, 1979 when the memorial was dedicated. The studs are different sizes to denote the apparent magnitude of the relevant object, and different studs denote binary stars, spectroscopic binaries, pulsars, globular clusters, open clusters, and quasars. Dais (French dais, estrade, Italian predella), originally a part of the floor at the end of a medieval hall, raised a step above the rest of the building. ... County Vestfold Landscape Municipality NO-0709 Administrative centre Larvik Mayor (2003) Øyvind Riise Jenssen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 199 535 km² 501 km² 0. ... The Sun is the star at the center of our solar system. ... Bulk composition of the moons mantle and crust estimated, weight percent Oxygen 42. ... Displays the remaining eight planets with the three new dwarf planets. ... An asteroid is a predominantly rocky body that orbits around its star. ... NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 56,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light years distant. ... This view, taken with infrared light, is a false-color image of a quasar-starburst tandem with the most luminous starburst ever seen in such a combination. ... The Pleiades, an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus A star is a massive, compact body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... // Headline text HEY!! HOW ARE YOU ALL?? Its nice of you to come read this page. ... Artists impression of a binary star system consisting of a black hole, with an accretion disc around it, and a main sequence star. ... A spectroscopic binary star is a binary star which cannot be resolved as a visual binary, even with telescopes of the highest existing resolving power. ... Composite Optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula pulsar, showing surrounding nebular gases stirred by the pulsars magnetic field and radiation. ... The Globular Cluster M80 in the constellation Scorpius is located about 28,000 light years distant and contains hundreds of thousands of stars. ... An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the same giant molecular cloud, and are still loosely gravitationally bound to each other. ... This view, taken with infrared light, is a false-color image of a quasar-starburst tandem with the most luminous starburst ever seen in such a combination. ...

Written on the papers held in the statue's left hand are three equations, summarising three of Einstein's important scientific advances:

• the photoelectric effect:
• the theory of general relativity:
• the equivalence of energy and matter:

If you stand at the center of the floor patterns, and speak towards the statue, you will feel a very interesting acoustic echo. The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from matter upon the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation or x-rays. ... General relativity (GR) is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. ... A display of the famous equation on Taipei 101 during the event of the World Year of Physics 2005. ...

References

• The Einstein Memorial at the National Academies - A Visitor's Guide

External links

• DC Memorials