| --Einstein could not find a job in physics upon graduating from college, and became a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. He worked on theoretical physics in his spare time. |
| Einstein did not receive a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. |
| --Einstein immediately left Germany for the United States following Hitler's rise to power. |
| --Einstein spent much of his later career searching for a unified field theory, but was unsuccessful. |
| Einstein declined the presidency of the state of Israel when it was offered to him in 1952 by state leaders. |
| --The element einsteinium, discovered in 1952, was named in honor of Albert Einstein. |
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