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- . it = a mem eign sie as SE gE . . j f reser - ~ ; {- _— Office Memohsndum , UNITED STAVES GOVERNMENT. _ ; TO: dir. He B, Fletcher DATE: Pebruary 13, 1950 rom: Y, P, Keax/P_ . wet an ct: PRorescon atemen vrwerem AL, _. = poMDENTIAL ByBCT: PROFEOSOR aLBERT EINST Pursuant to your request, there is contained hebein a summary of information on Frofessor Albert Einstein. BACKGROUND — wae, Bin oo he s .._ Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in Germany. He has en Married twice and his second wife died in 1936. He came to the sited 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 ag a a_jand of freedom, a Mistake _I_gennot pair In the balance of my life." HTT "Professor Einstein received his formal education in Germany and in ritzer rland. ’ He hss received sa sonsiderable number of honorary degrees and tions which are being set out as an attachment to this memorandum. Poy CLASS. & FYT According to the Smyth Report.on Atomic Energy, Einstein, as early s 1905, stated that mass and energy were equivalent and suggested that proof of this equivalence might be found by the study of radio active substances. é qin July, 1939, Einstein and a number of other scientists went to Alexander Sacks of New York, the latter being a friend of Fresident Roosevelt. That fall } Sacks talked to President Roosevelt and also presented a letter from Fistein. ! REASON-FCTN TT ATE B QF REvagh The President tock artion by granting $6, O00 for the army ane Navy in the aeey £2 GC ee Dee wee ae a ree Gt se vee, Wire awe ens Se has Vi Louth hat Spring of 1940. This was the money that american Scientists snowballed into $2,000,00%,000 and the atomic bomb. Ey Leo Szilard, wa., leo st, Cr who was a DSM _. employee, having tontractural relations wit urgical Laboratory in 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. Szilard, upon conceiving the idea upon which the DS:: projects are based, contacted Frofegsor 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 beginning oF of the experi- ments now known as the DSi. 7 gL a . =) . _ -: oa Attachments (4) - qo men an \Z/< ” Ye if J - wt & x: eae wh JD wee <0 <7 weg we pelea? Wh ABF shbteb ae wire i ” “a ws —_ mee ry een ae PU ig "thy .