This Lodge was established in 2005.
Albert Einstein was a German physicist, born in Ulm in 1879.
He finished his studies in 1894 and was taken on by the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1896.
He took Swiss nationality, and after marrying a Serban student, he started working at the Swiss Patent Office in Berne in 1902, using his spare time to think about the major issues raised by modern physics.
He invented the notion of the photon (particle of light) and was responsible for the Theory of Relativity.
He was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Zurich University in 1909.
An active opponent of nuclear proliferation, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, and in 1940, became an American citizen.
When Haim Weizmann died, he was offered the Presidency of the Israel State, but turned it down.
He died in Princeton in 1955.