    Albert Einstein was well known in Princeton for his generosity. But
    Jack Rosenberg remembers the time Einstein's coworkers asked him to
    turn the tables and help give the famous scientist a present.

    "The look of pleasure on his face was a sight I will never forget,"
    said Rosenberg, then a young engineer, who had installed a personal
    recording studio in Einstein's home for his 70th birthday in 1949.

    "I have never witnessed a more authentic surprise," Rosenberg recalled
    in a recent newsletter of the Institute for Advanced Study.

    Yet the gifts Einstein was known to give were not just personal; his
    remarkable contributions to Princeton and scientific progress are known
    throughout the world. One hundred years after the anniversary of one of
    Einstein's most important findings, the theory of special relativity,
    plans are now under way to remember the discoveries of the man who
    revolutionized physics in 1905 by redefining scientists' perception of
    space and time.

    Einstein's 22 years in Princeton at the Institute for Advanced Study
    (IAS), until his death in 1955, has created deep ties between the Nobel
    Prize winning physicist and the University.

    "He was one of several people who were very influential in highlighting
    Princeton as a place to do theoretical physics research," said physics
    professor Paul Steinhardt. "We still benefit from his legacy at
    Princeton."

    Though President Tilghman's office has said that events are still in
    the beginning stages, the physics department has plans for special
    lectures starting this autumn. According to Steinhardt, a concert might
    also be held in Einstein's honor.

    "He was the quintessential science professor," said Daniel Marlow, the
    physics department chair. "I would say there's a public fascination
    with the theory of special relativity and I think a lot of that derives
    from Einstein himself."

    "Einstein was a huge draw to the institute [for] other top scientists,"
    he said, referring to Einstein's time at IAS adding, "People associate
    Einstein to Princeton."

    Though not the theory that Einstein won the Nobel Prize for, and less
    practical than other theories, special relativity has
    profound intellectual implications.
