Compléter Einstein in AmericaVersion en ligne What did Einstein do in America after immigration from Germany? par Peter Feher 1 1940 Study nuclear Princeton Project Advanced Institute 1933 Franklin 1955 for D bombs Manhattan Adolf Roosevelt Hitler He was visiting the United States when came to power in and did not go back to Germany , where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences . He settled in the U . S . , becoming an American citizen in . [ 7 ] On the eve of World War II , he endorsed a letter to President . alerting him to the potential developing of " extremely powerful of a new type " and recommending that the U . S . begin similar research . This eventually led to what would become the . Einstein was in support of defending the Allied forces , but largely denounced using the new discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon . Later , with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell , Einstein signed the Russell ? Einstein Manifesto , which highlighted the danger of weapons . Einstein was affiliated with the in , New Jersey , until his death in .