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LEÓ SZILÁRD (1898–1964). Hungarian-born physicist, charming and eccentric, who met Einstein in Berlin and patented a refrigerator with him.
Conceived the nuclear chain reaction and cowrote the 1939 letter Einstein sent to President Franklin Roosevelt urging attention to the
possibility of an atomic bomb.
CHAIM WEIZMANN (1874–1952). Russian-born chemist who emigrated to England and became president of the World Zionist Organization. In
1921, he brought Einstein to America for the first time, using him as the draw for a fund-raising tour. Was first president of Israel, a post
offered upon his death to Einstein.
THE WINTELER FAMILY. Einstein boarded with them while he was a student in Aarau, Switzerland. Jost Winteler was his history and Greek
teacher; his wife, Rosa, became a surrogate mother. Of their seven children, Marie became Einstein’s first girlfriend; Anna married
Einstein’s best friend, Michele Besso; and Paul married Einstein’s sister, Maja.
HEINRICH ZANGGER (1874–1957). Professor of physiology at the University of Zurich. Befriended Einstein and Mari and helped mediate their
disputes and divorce.