Awards and honours

In 1925 the Royal Society awarded Einstein the Copley Medal.[5]

In 1929, Max Planck presented Einstein with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical
Society in Berlin, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics.[6]
In 1934 Einstein gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture.[7][8]
In 1936, Einstein was awarded the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal for his extensive work on
relativity and the photo-electric effect.[6]
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the "World Year of Physics" in
commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the annus mirabilis papers.[9]
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a research-intensive medical school located in the
Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx inNew York City.
The Albert Einstein Science Park is located on the hill Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, Germany. The
best known building in the park is theEinstein Tower which has a bronze bust of Einstein at the
entrance. The Tower is an astrophysical observatory that was built to perform checks of
Einstein's theory of General Relativity.[10]
The Albert Einstein Memorial in central Washington, D.C. is a monumental bronze statue
depicting Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. The statue, commissioned in 1979, is
located in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of
Sciences on Constitution Avenue.
The chemical element 99, einsteinium, was named for him in August 1955, four months after
Einstein's death.[11][12] 2001 Einstein is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on 5 March 1973.[13]
In 1999 Time magazine named him the Person of the Century,[14][15] ahead of Mahatma
Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt, among others. In the words of a biographer, "to the scientifically
literate and the public at large, Einstein is synonymous with genius".[16] Also in 1999, an opinion
poll of 100 leading physicists ranked Einstein the "greatest physicist ever".[17] A Gallup
poll recorded him as the fourth most admired person of the 20th century in the U.S.[18]
In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple for "laudable and distinguished
Germans",[19] which is located in Donaustauf in Bavaria.[20]
The United States Postal Service honored Einstein with a Prominent Americans series (1965
1978) 8 postage stamp.
In 2008, Einstein was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.[21]