Einstein's granddaughter dies

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Evelyn Einstein, who spent the last years of her life trying to fight for money generated by her late grandfather Albert's estate, has died, her close friend said Wednesday.

The friend, Allen Wilkinson, said the two had just started to work on her memoirs. "She always said her grandfather wasn't this great god of science, to her he was just Grandpa," Wilkinson said.

Einstein had been ill for years suffering from heart problems and diabetes. She died at her home in Albany, California, last week, Wilkinson said.

Albert Einstein made many contributions to modern science, but it's the videos, bobblehead dolls and Halloween masks using his image that continue to generate millions of dollars long after his death.

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1. RIP to her, but that last sentence made me laugh out loud.

Poor Albert; what would he think about leaving a bobblehead legacy that outearned his contributions in science?

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2. He didn't get the Nobel Prize for Relativity, either.

That was too radical and controversial. He got it for the photoelectric effect.

(I know this stuff b/c DH is a physicist; talks in equations; sometimes I understand it, sort of.)

I told him when he was looking for a job, back in the 90s, he should have held up a sign that said "WILL DESIGN THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES FOR FOOD".

:rofl: Pardon my warped sense of humor.