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EINSTEIN ON SERBS They are brilliant
One of the greatest physicists and most significant scientists in the history of the world, Albert Einstein, traveled in the summer of 1905 to Kać, a village near Novi Sad.
TL;DR
- Albert Einstein visited Serbia with his family in the summers of 1905, 1907, and 1913.
- His family stayed in Novi Sad, Kać, Titel, and Belgrade.
- Einstein enjoyed Serbian coffeehouses and expressed admiration for Serbian people.
- He famously stated that Serbs were a "brilliant nation" and that he no longer trusted doctors or medicine because they were against alcohol.
- His unconventional appearance and behavior in Novi Sad led locals to call him 'that crazy Marić's son-in-law'.
- Einstein's sons Hans-Albert and Eduardo, and daughter Lizerl, were baptized in a Serbian Orthodox church in 1913.