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What do we know about the visit of Albert Einstein to Cuba?
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Albert Einstein, the creator of the Theory of Relativity, and Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1921, arrived in Havana on December 19, 1930 and had a great reception in the capital of all Cubans.

He spent just 30 hours on Cuban soil. The newspaper El Heraldo de Cuba announced: “The wise German who denies the infinite prolongation of two lines parallel to each other, was yesterday a guest of our capital.”

In the Golden Book of the Geographical Society, where he was asked to write a few lines, the distinguished visitor stated: “The first truly universal society was the society of researchers. May the generation to come establish an economic and political society that will safely avoid catastrophes. “Einstein, a German of Jewish origin, later a Swiss and American national, was eloquent in referring to the socio-economic problems of the world at that time.

The professor – born in Ulm (city of the German Empire) on March 14, 1879, and died at the age of 76 in Princeton, United States, on April 18, 1955 – visited the Cuban Society of Engineers and the Cuban Geographical Society . At the bottom of a large graph, another capital newspaper commented: «Einstein greets his Cuban hosts in the auditorium of the Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana, whose premises currently belong to the National Museum of History of Sciences Carlos J. Finlay ».

Einstein also participated in a banquet organized in his honor, but could not visit the University of Havana because the study center had been closed by the dictator Gerardo Machado due to the rebellious demonstrations of his young students. However, he visited luxurious places in the city and then, fulfilling his express wishes, toured rural areas and neighborhoods where poor and needy families lived together.

The German scientist announced in 1905 what he called his Theory of Special Relativity on the linkage of mass and energy and in 1915 he released what he called the Theory of General Relativity, in which he completely reformulated the concept of the gravity.

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