Hans Einstein He finished high school at Eerde, a boarding school in the Netherlands at age 16 and moved to the United States as an exchange student. He attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. One of the first things he did upon arriving was look up his last name in the phone book. The only Einstein he found was a relative: Albert Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein. They became friends and he was often invited over whenever Albert visited. He earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1946 and did his internship at Paterson General Hospital in Paterson,
Albert Einstein in popular culture although the movie is fictionalized. An Einstein-like character appears in Nicolas Roeg's 1985 film "Insignificance". Set in New York in 1953, the film includes a scene in which "The Professor" (played by Michael Emil), the character evidently representing Albert Einstein, discusses Relativity with "The Actress" (Theresa Russell), a Marilyn Monroe-like character. Einstein was portrayed by Walter Matthau in the 1994 romantic comedy "I.Q". In the 2001 film "", he was portrayed as a holographic personality called Dr. Know (voiced by Robin Williams). The 2009 film "The Nutcracker in 3D" includes a character named Uncle Albert who resembles Einstein, speaks with