Thirty brief interludes about this figure, some of which are meetings with Michele Besso, appear in a book of this man's "Dreams" by Alan Lightman. John Statchel and Martin Klein edited several volumes of this man's writings for his namesake "Papers Project." Along with Bertrand Russel, this man drafted a manifesto that predicated the Pugwash Conferences and calls for people to "Remember [their] humanity, and forget the rest" to avert the "utter disaster" of nuclear war. Another document written by this man and Leo Szilard called on FDR to begin work on an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. For 10 points, name this former patent clerk and anti-nuclear activist, a legendarily intelligent 
Thirty brief interludes about this figure, some of which are meetings with Michele Besso, appear in a book of this man's "Dreams" by Alan Lightman. John Statchel and Martin Klein edited several volumes of this man's writings for his namesake "Papers Project." Along with Bertrand Russel, this man drafted a manifesto that predicated the Pugwash Conferences and calls for people to "Remember [their] humanity, and forget the rest" to avert the "utter disaster" of nuclear war. Another document written by this man and Leo Szilard called on FDR to begin work on an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany could. For 10 points, name this former patent clerk and anti-nuclear activist, a legendarily intelligent German physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
Thirty brief interludes about this figure, some of which are meetings with Michele Besso, appear in a book of this man's "Dreams" by Alan Lightman.
Albert {Einstein}