Albert Einstein: Alpish genius

September 22, 2005

ALBERT Einstein was an Alpish genius of Central European Jewish origins.

Charles Nordmann, quoted in Ronald W. Clark, Einstein, p. 352.

‘His skull is clearly, and to an extraordinary degree, brachycephalic, great in breadth and receding towards the nape of the neck without exceeding the vertical…The skull of Einstein reminds me, above all else, of that of Renan, who was also a brachycephale. As with Renan the forehad is huge; its breadth exceptional, its spherical form striking one more than its height.’