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The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental Bronze Statue depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. It is located in central Washington, D.C. , United States , in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy Of Sciences on Constitution Avenue , near to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial . The statue was sculpted by Robert Berks in 19 sections and then welded together. It weighs 7,000 Pounds (3.2 Metric Ton s) and would stand 21 Feet (6.4 M ) high. The statue sits on a bench that is white Granite from Mount Airy , North Carolina . The statue and bench are at one side of a circular Dais , 28 feet (8.5 m) in diameter, made from emerald-pearl granite from Larvik , Norway . Embedded in the dais are more than 2,700 metal studs representing the location of astronomical objects ( Sun , Moon , Planet s, Stars , Galaxies ) at noon on April 22 , 1979 when the memorial was dedicated. Different studs denote Binary Star s, Spectroscopic Binaries , Pulsar s, Globular Cluster s, Open Cluster s, and Quasar s. Written on the papers held in the statue's left hand are three equations, summarising three of Einstein's important scientific advances:
u} - {1 \over 2} g_{\mu u}R = \kappa T_{\mu u}
u-A\, If you stand at the center of the floor patterns, and speak towards the statue, you will feel a very interesting acoustic echo. REFERENCES
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