A nice documentary to see Albert Einstein in a geopolitical context.
This documentary drives forward the notion of the uncomfortable role Albert Einstein has inherited through the publication of his theories and the politic developments of his time. There is also another interesting documentar called „Einstein’s Big Idea“ revolving around the formula E=mc2 and using a historic perspective picturing Einstein as a person to stand on the shoulders of many that came before him. Hence applauding him for the ingenuity to integrate thoughts and findings of his time and not putting him on a unreachable mental pedestal while having him grasps those ideas out of an unexplainable thin air of genius. No doubt that Einstein literally changed the world but he couldn’t have done so without the ideas of many other thinkers and scientists that came before him and who’s ideas are now sometimes falsely attributed to Einstein himself.
Update: The documentary was taken down. I found another source on youtube and relinked it from there.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Born as a subject to the Kingdom of Württemberg, part of the German Empire, which he later renounced on 28 January 1896, just 6 weeks before he turned 17, avoiding conscription into military service. The familiy moved to Munich in 1880, where he grew up and attended primary, lower and higher secondary schools. In 1895, he moved to Pavia, Italy, to stay with his family which moved there an year earlier and then further to Swiss canton of Aargau to attend a final year in gymnasium in Aarau. In 1896, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zurich, graduating in 1900. He acquired Swiss citizenship a year...
Definition from Wikipedia – Albert Einstein