Princeton was a center of attraction for many renowned researchers in the 1940s and 1950s. Two of them stood out in particular, and were always seen together: Albert Einstein and the man known as his closest friend at the time: Austrian mathematician Kurt Godel.
Both had fled Europe during the Nazi occupation and worked together at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Every day, they walked home together, conversing animatedly in German on politics, physics, philosophy, and life.
