Tourist attraction
Albert Einstein Memorial
Twelve-foot bronze figure seated on granite steps above a star map of the sky on its dedication day.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C. follows sculptor Robert Berks, who arrived at Einstein's Princeton home in 1953 with wet clay instead of a camera to study how the physicist moved and laughed. You'll hear how Berks worked the same way with John F. Kennedy and educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and how Einstein's death in 1955 left Berks finishing the twelve-foot bronze from memory for its 1979 unveiling. Naval Observatory astronomers mapped the exact sky over the plaza on dedication day.
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