Albert Einstein in popular culture
Einstein is a favorite model for depictions of absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyles have been widely copied and exaggerated.
[6] In 1991, he published in the column a comic book on Einstein's life and work, inspired mainly by the theory of relativity.
[16] In 2012, Judge Howard Matz of a United States district court found that although a General Motors advertisement featuring Einstein's image was "tasteless", it was not illegal.
Judge Matz declined, stating "the Ninth Circuit recently noted that Marilyn Monroe considered herself to belong 'to the Public and to the world'".
His theory, e=mc2 is shown as method for splitting beer atoms Einstein was portrayed by Ludwig Stössel in the 1947 film The Beginning or the End.
[33] The Star Wars character Yoda's wrinkles were modeled after Einstein's to give the impression of exceptional intelligence.
[35][36] In the 2011 film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, the Autobot Que sports an Einstein-inspired head design, including his wild hairstyle, dapper mustache, and eyes.
[37] A holographic representation of Einstein (played by Jim Norton) appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The episode starts on the Enterprise with a game of poker being played by holodeck representations of Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking (portrayed by himself).
episode "The Travels of Marco...and Friends" begins with Bogg and Jeff landing in New York in 1930 and saving Einstein from a potentially fatal accident.
In Eureka, the titular town was established when President Harry S. Truman commissioned development of a top-secret lab, staffed by Albert Einstein, after World War II and it became home to the scientists and their families working there.
Einstein is portrayed by Eric Charters in episode 11 of season 13 "Staring Blindly into the Future" (January 13, 2020) of the Canadian television period drama Murdoch Mysteries where he explains the theory of general relativity.
In this fictional version of events, Einstein is the intended victim of an antisemitic murder plot and one of the viewpoint characters.
In 1940, Philadelphia artist Louis Hirshman created a caricature of Einstein using found objects, including a wild mop of hair, an abacus chest and shirt collar scribbled with the equation 2+2 = 2+2.
Albert Einstein's handwriting has been digitised as a font in an art project by typographer Harald Geisler and dancer Elizabeth Waterhouse.
[50] The project was created in collaboration with the Albert Einstein Archives Jerusalem and presented in 2015 on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter where the campaign was supported by 2,334 backers.
In 2017, at the 85th anniversary of the exchange, Harald Geisler presented the project on Kickstarter in collaboration with the Sigmund Freud Museum (Vienna) and the Albert Einstein Archives.
[53] Supporters of the project could choose to either receive the letters themselves or send them to politicians typeset in the handwriting of Einstein and Freud.
[54] Einstein is an integral character in the Command & Conquer: Red Alert series, being responsible in Red Alert for altering the course of history using a time traveling device he created to remove Adolf Hitler from existence in an attempt to prevent the horrors of World War II, inadvertently leading to the Soviet Union's rise to power and conflict with Europe.
[55] In the original Mega Man video game, Dr. Wily's design is inspired by Albert Einstein and was initially conceived to appear as a tall, thin scientist with a mustache, glasses, balding hair, and lab coat.
