GETTY
NEW JERSEY, US, 1944
How did Albert Einstein, the man who redefined the laws of physics, like to unwind? By solving little wooden puzzles. People from around the world sent them to him at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, which he joined in October 1933. It was his warnings about Nazi uranium experiments that spawned the Manhattan Project and the first atomic bomb. When the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Einstein, a pacifist at heart, spoke just three words: “Woe is me.”