My Friend,Albert Einstein
My Friend,Albert Einstein I was in awe of Einstein,and hesitated before approaching him about some ideas I had been working on. When I finally knocked on his door,a gentle voice said,“Come”—with a rising inflection that made the single word both a welcome and a question. I entered his office and found him seated at a table,calculating and smoking his pipe. Dressed in ill-fitting clothes,his hair characteristically awry,he smiled a warm welcome. His utter naturalness at once set me at ease. Collaborating with Einstein was an unforgettable experience. In 1937,the Polish physicist Leopold Infeld and I asked if we could work with him. He was pleased with the proposal,since he had an idea about gravitation waiting to be worked out in detail. Thus we got to know not merely the man and the frien…