Albert Einstein, whose
theories exploded and redesigned our thoughts of how the universe works, died
on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76.
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His funeral and burial were strongly
private affairs, and only one photographer succeeded to capture the occasions
of that unusual day: LIFE magazine’s Ralph Morse. A photographer from LIFE
snapped his desk at Princeton hours after Einstein had died. Einstein passed
new sense to the saying, cluttered desk, and cluttered mind. Perhaps brilliance
needs a little disorder.