John Nash gets a lot of the "Eccentric Princeton Genius" attention nowadays, but he was by no means the first world-famous superbrain to grace our campus. Albert Einstein, the Walter Matthau to Nash's Russell Crowe, ably held down that position until his death in 1955.More than fifty years on, it's hard to find authentic traces of Einstein on campus -- an unrenovated Frist classroom here, a small off-campus house there, some old letters stored in Firestone. But Einstein's legacy lives on in the form of Gillett Griffin, his last living friend.
Read Griffin's story - including the strange tale of his first encounter with Einstein (it involves a yellow plastic duck!) - in today's Star-Ledger.
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