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    Title

  • Albert Einstein with Michele Besso and his wife Anna : a reunion in Zurich, Switzerland

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white. ; 19 x 19 centimeters

  • Date

    1930

  • Place of Publication

    Zurich

  • Depicted

    Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Besso, Michele Angelo, 1873-1955

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Medium

    Group portraits

  • Part Of

    Albert Einstein Collection, AR 136

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Michele Besso was a Swiss-born Jewish Italian engineer. While attending the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, he became close friends with Albert Einstein. The two also worked together at the patent office in Bern.

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Citation

Albert Einstein with Michele Besso and his wife Anna : a reunion in Zurich, Switzerland, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5335.