Editing Albert Einstein (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Non-scientific ===
[[File:Einstein-Oslofjord (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Left-right: [[Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt|Heinrich Goldschmidt]], Einstein, [[Ole Colbjørnsen]], [[Jørgen Vogt]], and Ilse Einstein at a picnic in Oslo in 1920.]]
While traveling, Einstein wrote daily to his wife Elsa and adopted stepdaughters Margot and Ilse. The letters were included in the papers bequeathed to the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]. Margot Einstein permitted the personal letters to be made available to the public, but requested that it not be done until twenty years after her death (she died in 1986<ref name="margot-obituary"/>). Barbara Wolff, of the Hebrew University's [[Albert Einstein Archives]], told the [[BBC]] that there are about 3,500 pages of private correspondence written between 1912 and 1955.<ref name="letters-love"/>

In 1979, the [[Albert Einstein Memorial]] was unveiled outside the [[National Academy of Sciences]] building in [[Washington, D.C.]] for the Einstein centenary. It was sculpted by [[Robert Berks]]. Einstein can be seen holding a paper with three of his most important equations: for the [[photoelectric effect]], [[general relativity]] and [[mass-energy equivalence]].<ref>{{cite web| title=The Einstein Memorial| work=[[National Academy of Sciences]]| url=https://www.nasonline.org/about-the-nas/locations/the-einstein-memorial/}}</ref>

Einstein's [[right of publicity]] was litigated in 2015 in a federal district court in California. Although the court initially held that the right had expired,<ref name="casetext-hebrew-university"/> that ruling was immediately appealed, and the decision was later vacated in its entirety. The underlying claims between the parties in that lawsuit were ultimately settled. The right is enforceable, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the exclusive representative of that right.<ref name="pacermonitor-hebrew-university"/> [[Branded Entertainment Network|Corbis]], successor to The Roger Richman Agency, licenses the [[Trademark|use of his name and associated imagery]], as agent for the university.<ref name="einstein.biz"/>

[[Mount Einstein]] in the [[Chugach Mountains]] of [[Alaska]] was named in 1955. Mount Einstein in New Zealand's [[Paparoa Range]] was named after him in 1970 by the [[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Zealand)|Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]].<ref>{{LINZ|id=3694 |name=Mount Einstein |access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref>

In 1999, Einstein was named [[Time (magazine)|''Time'']]'s [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century|Person of the Century]].<ref name="TIME">{{cite magazine| title=Albert Einstein| magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]| last=Golden| first=Frederic| date=31 December 1999| url= https://time.com/archive/6598209/albert-einstein/}}</ref>

=== Scientific ===
In 1999, a survey of the top 100 physicists voted for Einstein as the "greatest physicist ever", while a parallel survey of rank-and-file physicists gave the top spot to [[Isaac Newton]], with Einstein second.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 November 1999 |title=Einstein the Greatest |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/541840.stm |access-date=19 November 2024 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-11-29 |title=Newton tops PhysicsWeb poll |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/newton-tops-physicsweb-poll/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |work=Physics World}}</ref>

Physicist [[Lev Landau]] ranked physicists from 0 to 5 on a [[Lev Landau#Landau's ranking of physicists|logarithmic scale]] of productivity and genius, with Newton and Einstein belonging in a "super league", with Newton receiving the highest ranking of 0, followed by Einstein with 0.5, while fathers of quantum mechanics such as [[Werner Heisenberg]] and [[Paul Dirac]] were ranked 1, with Landau himself a 2.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goldberg |first=Elkhonon |author-link=Elkhonon Goldberg |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rr9EDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 |title=Creativity: The Human Brain in the Age of Innovation |date=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-046649-7 |location=New York, NY |pages=166 |language=en}}</ref>

Physicist [[Eugene Wigner]] noted that while [[John von Neumann]] had the quickest and acute mind he ever knew, the understanding of Einstein was deeper than von Neumann's, stating that:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Szanton |first=Andrew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Hj1BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 |title=The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner |date=1992 |publisher=Springer US |isbn=978-0-306-44326-8 |location=Boston, MA |pages=58, 170 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4899-6313-0}}</ref>{{blockquote|But Einstein's understanding was deeper than even Jancsi von Neumann's. His mind was both more penetrating and more original than von Neumann's. And that is a very remarkable statement. Einstein took an extraordinary pleasure in invention. Two of his greatest inventions are the Special and General Theories of Relativity; and for all of Jancsi's brilliance, he never produced anything so original. No modern physicist has.}} The [[International Union of Pure and Applied Physics]] declared 2005 the "[[World Year of Physics 2005|World Year of Physics]]", also known as "Einstein Year", in recognition of Einstein's "[[Annus mirabilis#1905 – Albert Einstein|miracle year]]" in 1905.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Here Comes the World Year of Physics |url=https://www.aps.org/archives/publications/apsnews/200310/wyp.cfm |website=aps.org}}</ref> It was also declared the "International Year of Physics" by the [[United Nations]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Year of Physics, 2005 |url=https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/523158?ln=en&v=pdf |date=2004-01-16 |website=United Nations Digital Library}}</ref>