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Hans Albert Einstein was the son of Albert Einstein. He studied engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. In 1938 he emigrated to the US in South Carolina, working for the US Deptartment of Agriculture and studying sediment transport. He continued to work for the USDA in California when he began teaching hydraulic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Margot Einstein, the daughter of Elsa Einstein and her first husband Max Löwenthal, was the stepdaughter of physicist Albert Einstein.

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Albert Einstein; his stepdaughter Margot Einstein; and his son Hans Albert Einstein, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5368L.