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memorial was held at the Harnack House, erected the previous year with funds provided by the state of Prussia to serve as a meeting place for esteemed scientists, artists, ambassadors, and public intellectuals. A guest book over the years boasted the names of several Nobel Prize winners: the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore; the German physicists Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg. Here, in a stately hall named after Goethe, Einstein presented his theory of relativity for the very first time. How much has changed since then—and how rapidly. On February 4, 1935, high-ranking
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