People, Apr. 10, 1972

Aggression is a biologically based characteristic of man, Albert Einstein wrote in an essay at the age of 36. His younger sister would certainly have agreed. In a biography of her famous brother soon to be published, along with other personal and some technical papers, by the Princeton University Press, the late Maja Winteler-Einstein tells about the prodigy's terrible temper, which caused his whole face—minus the tip of his nose—to turn yellow. Albert frightened off a violin teacher by throwing a chair at her, hurled a bowling ball at his sister, and in...

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