Editing Albert Einstein (section)

== In popular culture ==
{{Main|Albert Einstein in popular culture}}
[[File:Albert Einstein sticks his tongue.jpg|thumb|The famous image of Einstein taken by [[Arthur Sasse]] in 1951, sitting in a car on his 74th birthday, having been asked to smile for the camera once again.|224x224px]]
Einstein became one of the most famous [[Scientific celebrity|scientific celebrities]] after the confirmation of his general theory of relativity in 1919.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Halpern |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Halpern |year=2019 |title=Albert Einstein, celebrity scientist |url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4183 |url-status=live |journal=[[Physics Today]] |volume=72 |issue=4 |pages=38–45 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.4183 |bibcode=2019PhT....72d..38H |s2cid=187603798 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414011401/https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4183 |archive-date=14 April 2021 |access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Fahy |first=Declan |year=2015 |title=A Brief History Of Scientific Celebrity |url=https://skepticalinquirer.org/2015/07/a-brief-history-of-scientific-celebrity/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[Skeptical Inquirer]] |volume=39 |issue=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510182647/https://skepticalinquirer.org/2015/07/a-brief-history-of-scientific-celebrity/ |archive-date=10 May 2021 |access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Why Einstein Became Famous in America |last=Missner |first=Marshall |journal=[[Social Studies of Science]] |date=May 1985 |volume=15 |number=2|pages=267–291 |doi=10.1177/030631285015002003 |jstor=285389 |s2cid=143398600 }}</ref> Although most of the public had little understanding of his work, he was widely recognized and admired. In the period before World War II, ''[[The New Yorker]]'' published a vignette in their "The Talk of the Town" feature saying that Einstein was so well known in America that he would be stopped on the street by people wanting him to explain "that theory". Eventually he came to cope with unwanted enquirers by pretending to be someone else: {{qi|Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein.}}<ref name="disguise" />

Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films, plays, and works of music.<ref name="orchestra" /> He is a favorite model for depictions of [[absent-minded professor]]s; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was "a cartoonist's dream come true".<ref name="slqbwn" /> His intellectual achievements and originality made ''Einstein'' broadly synonymous with ''genius''.<ref name="wordnetweb.princeton.edu" />

Many popular [[quotations]] are often [[False attribution|misattributed]] to him.<ref name="fake-quotes" /><ref name="humiliate-atheist" />