Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million
Einstein's Note On Happiness, Given To Bellboy In 1922, Fetches $1.6 Million October 25, 2017 11:33 AM ET The owner of a Jerusalem auction house holds up a note on happiness written by Albert Einstein in 1922. The note, which Einstein gave to a courier in lieu of a tip, sold for $1.56 million on Tuesday to an anonymous buyer. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images The year 1922 was a busy one for Albert Einstein: He completed his first paper on unified field theory, went to Paris to help normalize French-German relations and joined an intellectuals committee at the League of Nations. Shortly before heading to Asia for a lecture tour, he learned that he had won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics . But rather than head to Stockholm for the award ceremony, he decided to keep his plans and continued to Japan. When he arrived in