53° APPENDICES1949 January 13. E. leaves the hospital.
Publication of the 'necrology,' written by E., a largely scientific review
entitled Autobiographisch.es.
1950 March 18. E. signs and seals his last will and testament. Dr Otto Nathan
is named as sole executor. Dr Nathan and Helen Dukas are named jointly
as trustees of his estate. The Hebrew University is named as the ultimate
repository of his letters and manuscripts. Among other stipulations, his
violin is bequeathed to his grandson Bernhard Caesar.
1951 June. Death of Maja in Princeton.
1952 July. Death of Paul Winteler at the home of his brother-in-law, Besso, in
Geneva.
November. E. is offered and declines the presidency of Israel.
1954 April 14. The press carries a statement of support by E. for J. R. Oppen-
heimer on the occasion of allegations brought against the latter by the U.S.
Government.
Last meeting of E. and Bohr (in Princeton).
E. develops hemolytic anaemia.
1955 March 15. Death of Besso.
April 11. E.'s last signed letter (to Bertrand Russell), in which he agrees
to sign a manifesto urging all nations to renounce nuclear weapons. That
same week, E. writes his final phrase, in an unfinished manuscript: 'Political
passions, aroused everywhere, demand their victims.'
April 13. Rupture of the aortic aneurysm.
April 15. E. enters Princeton Hospital.
April 16. Hans Albert E. arrives in Princeton from Berkeley.
April 17. E. telephones Helen Dukas: he wants writing material and the
sheets with his most recent calculations.
April 18, 1:15 a.m. E. dies. The body is cremated in Trenton at 4 p.m.
that same day. The ashes are scattered* at an undisclosed place.
November 21. Thomas Martin, son of Bernhard Caesar, son of Hans
Albert, is born in Bern, the first of the great-grandchildren of Albert
Einstein.*By Otto Nathan and Paul Oppenheim.