If you have ever wondered what a Nobel Prize looks like (apart from the money), the answer is here- 2 certificates (in Swedish) and a medallion.
No prizes for guessing who won this particular Nobel prize... Actually was donated by Einstein (indirrectly) to the Bloomfield Science Museum in Jerusalem, where it is on public display.
The museum is right beside the Hebrew University, in the Givat Ram district of the city. It is mostly targetted at children with a number of interactive displays, but it does have a room devoted to Albert Einstein, complete with letters by him, school reports on him and facsimiles of the original maunscript of special (?) general (?) relativity, complete with crossings out. I found it enormously heartening to see that even Prof. Einstein himself occassionally made mistakes. photos (c) V Neblik, 2008
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