100th birthday of Albert Einstein - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1979

Albert Einstein's 100th Birthday On the occasion of Albert Elnstein's 100th birthday, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues a multi-colored special postage stamp block. No Special First Day Cover Cover Special cancellation from February 20 to April 19, 1979 The publication of the special postage stamp block on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 to April 18, 1955) honors one of the most important natural scientists in human history , Albert Einstein initially worked from 1902 to 1909 as an expert (pre-examiner) at the Patent Office in Bern, from 1909 to 1911 as an associate professor at the University of Prague and from 1912 to 1913 as a professor of theoretical physics at the Polytechnic in Zurich. From 1913 to 1933 he was a full-time ordinary member of the Berlin Academy, today's Academy of Sciences of the GDR. During this time he developed revolutionary ideas for quantum physics, founded the general theory of relativity and gravitation theory and created foundations for modern cosmology. However, Einstein's work and world of ideas are not only linked to the revolutionary transformation and redesign of the physical world view in the first third of the 20th century; His work also established new methodological and epistemological principles that are of fundamental importance to scientific research in general. His fundamental discoveries also had an influence on the development of a modern materialist-dialectical world view. Albert Einstein, who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, is rightly at the side of the great naturalists in the history of mankind - Copernicus, Galileo, Newton. But Albert Einstein was not only the greatest naturalist of our time, but also an important humanist and social ethicist, a militant antifascist, a scientist who, after the Second World War, stood up for peaceful coexistence between states and against the misuse of scientific knowledge. The Einstein Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, to which excellent personalities belong to the scientific life of the GDR, considers it a top-priority obligation to design the 100th birthday of Albert Einstein as a reason for the appreciation of his entire life's work. The special postage stamp block contains a portrait drawing by Albert Einstein, the original of which was made in a scientific meeting of academicians on 23 June 1927 in Berlin and personally signed by Einstein. In the upper part of the block is the famous formula Einstein for gravitational theory. Below the portrait drawing is the reproduction of a construction drawing of the Einstein tower, which was produced and signed by his architect Mendelsohn. This tower is today part of the Central Institute for Astrophysics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Potsdam.