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In Einstein’s essay, “The World As I See It,” he says, “I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..." This quote perfectly describes Einstein’s life and what he went through. When he offered political advice towards those working on the Manhattan Project, he offered it as a prominent figure, but was not allowed to actually work on the project as he was from Germany. Being one of the lead physicists of his day, if not //the// leading physicist, it would have been helpful to the United States if he could contribute. However, Einstein would have not been happily received back in his home State of Germany either. IN this sense he did not really belong to any country. He was a national star in America, but clearly could not be trusted fully by everyone. By the time the 1930’s came around, scientists had switched from being much more theoretical to much more experimental based. Einstein was solely a theoretical physicist and did not partake in many of these new experiments that were being carried out. As such, the Einstein Exhibit says, “In return, experimental nuclear physicists in the 1930s had little need for Einstein's theories.” Despite being such an influential and prominent scientist, his methods were being phased out. He was already being pushed towards the solitude that he wrote about in his essay. For being one of the most advanced scientists ever, Einstein faced a lot of adversity and problems in his life.