62 years after his death, Albert Einstein remains the most famous scientist on the planet. The world is still Einstein a go-go. He has made a mark on our consciousness like no other scientist before or since. The landmark image of Einstein, with his shock of “eccentric professor” hair and his tongue sticking out, graces T-shirts and posters in every corner of the world. Time magazine’s Frederic Golden says that Einstein is, “A cartoonist’s dream come true.”
The physicist has inspired pop songs (the aforementioned “Einstein a Go-Go” and “E=MC2”), plays (Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian), operas (Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach) and films (Insignificance and IQ). Yoda’s eyes on Star Wars are even modelled on Einstein’s.
He has become a global icon. Not bad for a theoretical physicist whose most celebrated discovery – the Theory of Relativity – is properly understood by only a handful of fellow Nobel Prize winners.
Source: Genius’ Geoffrey Rush on playing Einstein: ‘Before celebrities were called celebrities, he became world-famous for something nobody understood!’ | The Independent
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