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| -_ Of Meviohndu UNITED eras GOVERNMENT ity _ — ee a ; 3 2 ire H. B. Fletcher DATE: February 13, 1950 rom + Vv. eas? Pursuant to your request, there is contained hetein a summary of information on Professor Albert Einstein. \CKGR( Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in Germany. He has __——_- en married twice ard his second wife died in 1936. He came to the ited States in 1933, and was naturalized on October 1, 1940. In December, 47, it was reported that Einstein stated the following: "I came to America cause of the great, great, freedom which I heard existed in this country. made a mistake in selecting America as a Jand of freedom, a mistake I cannot —___. pair in the balance of my life.* ' ‘Professor Einstein received his formal education in Germany and in tzerland. He has received a considerable number of honorary degrees and itations which are being set out as an attachment to this memorandum. & el According to the Smyth Report.oh Atomic Energy, Einstein, as early + Gas 1905, stated that mass and energy were equivalent and suggested that proof @ got this equivalence might be found by the study of radio active substances. in July, 1939, Einstein and a number of other scientists went to Alexander ai ‘Sacks of New York, the latter being a friend of President Roosevelt. That fall Sacks talked to President Roosevelt and also presented a letter fran Fistein. t The President took action by granting $6,000 for the Army and Navy in the Spring of 1940. This was the money that American Scientists snowballed into \ $2,000, of 000 and the atomic bomb. ss aaV] leo Szilard, wa., leo sy, IT who was a DSM _ a employee, having tontractural relations wi e urgical Laboratory in crass. & mrt SRY SPA PeASON -FCT Chicago, was in New York City in October, 1944. Szilard was the man who first formulated the idea and theory that was responsible for the entire DSM experiment. 77 Szilard, upon conceiving the idea upon which the DS2: projects are based, contacted 2S i Professor Einstein who was impressed with the possibilities of Szilard's theories and accompenied the latter to Washington, D. C., where they conferred with Fresident Roosevelt. This conference resulted in the o neo. of the experi~ ments now known as the DSi. . Attachments (4) le oe rae * e/s SY 099 = 2 i - a ; MAR 141 "5 AO AL ABFshbteb