"I was born on the 14th March 1879 in Ulm..."

Einstein was completing his curriculum vitae one day in 1932. The prestigious Kaiser Leopold German Academy of Scientists, where Goethe had once been a member, had asked him to join.

He had to answer nine questions. To question number eight he answered, "several medals were awarded me." But he did not explain what those medals were for. Nor did he state that in 1921 he had received the Nobel Prize for Physi