A father offered his son a fiveyearold Albert Einstein a compass that triggered an irrepressible need to understand the laws of the universe and an iconic scientific career. At first a simple employee of the Swiss Patent Office in Bern the young Einstein published a series of scientific articles that questioned everything previously understood in the world of physics. His theory summed up by the formula E mc2 opened to humanity the doors of the power of the atom. A legendary genius but also a