lm Gesellschaft in Berlin. By the age of 35 he was
             recognized as the best physicist in whole Europe.
             When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions about the
             general theory of relativity, Einstein was bombarded by the popular press. Einstein's
             personal ethics also fired public imagination. Einstein, who after returning to Germany in
             1914 did not reapply for German citizenship, was one of only a handful of German
             professors who remained a pacifist and did not support Germany's war aims. After the
             war, when the victorious allies sought to exclude German scientists from international
             meetings, Einstein--a Jew traveling with a Swiss passport--remained an acceptable
             German envoy. Einstein's political views as a pacifist and a Zionist pitted him against
             conservatives in Germany, who branded him a traitor and a defeatist. The public success
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