Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Einstein considered his famous message to Roosevelt his life's 'one great mistake.' “Certain aspects of the situation which has ...

Einstein's 1939 letter to Roosevelt, warning of atomic weapons, sold at auction for $3.9 million. Einstein later regretted the letter for its ultimate role in helping to develop the atomic bomb. The ...

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(JNS) Christie’s auction house anticipates an explosive sale price for a two-page letter from 1939 that laid the foundation for the Allied victory in World War II. In September, the auction giant will ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity may be too complicated for some to understand. But the expected price of a letter the scientist wrote makes a great deal of sense. A missive that Einstein sent ...

In the summer of 1939, with war in Europe looming, several U.S. scientists entreated Einstein to warn President Franklin D. Roosevelt about recent advances in nuclear research that Germany might ...

Eighty-five years ago Friday, two world-famous scientists who had fled Nazi Europe, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilárd, composed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to not let Germany ...

Einstein later regretted the letter for its ultimate role in helping to develop the atomic bomb. The letter belonged to late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The new owner's identity is unknown. In ...