10 Albert Einstein Facts That Will Surprise You

He mediated a hostage negotiation

Einstein was a well-known pacifist, and put his beliefs to the test in post-World War I Germany, when radical students at the University of Berlin took the rector and several professors hostage. Einstein was well respected on the campus, so he and Max Born, a German-born pioneer of quantum mechanics, were able to defuse the situation.

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