Timeline Tuesday 17 October 1933

Events on Tuesday 17 October 1933 3

• 1933 Albert Einstein settles in the United States Einstein joins the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Having renounced his German citizenship after the Nazi takeover, Einstein arrived in the United States on 17 October. He took up his post at Princeton and never returned to Germany.
• 1933 – 1955 Princeton Twenty-two years at the Institute for Advanced Study Einstein arrived in October 1933 and never left the United States again, walking to the Institute each day from Mercer Street. Asked what equipment he required, he said a desk, paper, a pencil and a large wastebasket for his mistakes. He spent the years there chasing a unified field theory that never came.
• 1933 – 2024 William A. Anders (1933-2024) Died 7 June 2024, aged 90 American astronaut on Apollo 8, the first crewed flight around the Moon, who took the Earthrise photograph.