American Toby Jug Museum 

Albert Einstein character jug modeled by Stanley J. Taylor and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, between 1995 and 1997. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is considered by many the greatest scientist of the twentieth century. In 2000 he was named by Time magazine as its “Man of the Century.” Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany where he studied math and physics in school. He obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich and by 1909 was recognized throughout German-speaking Europe as a leading scientific thinker. British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions about the general theory of relativity. Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect. With the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s, Einstein moved to the United States where, in 1939, he sent a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the United States to develop an atomic bomb before Germany did. This contributed to Roosevelt's decision to fund what became the Manhattan Project. Until the end of his life, Einstein sought a unified field theory, whereby the phenomena of gravitation and electromagnetism could be derived from one set of equations. A scroll with E=mc2 and an atom form the handle of the jug.