A leather jacket worn by arguably the most famous mathematician in the world – Albert Einstein was sold for a staggering $144 ,000. Though it looks like the pioneer mathematician had some great fashion sense, according to reports, the auctioned jacket of his was way too smelly.
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The firm which moderated the auction – Christie’s – describes the jacket of having a ‘pungent smell. Even though the reason for the smell can be attributed to Einstein’s habit of pipe smoking, it still cannot be ruled a proof conclusive.
Apparently, Einstein picked up the Levis-Strauss made jacket sometime during the mid 1930s in America.
Similarly, Einstein hardly parted with the jacket and ‘Einstein wore it all the time — a fact mentioned in the memoirs of fellow scientist Leopold Infeld, who worked with him at Princeton University.
The jacket’s new, unnamed owner is its first since Einstein died in 1955.
