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It's believed the 22-year-old caught the scientist's eye during a trip to Italy.              STORYLINE         ...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLEADIN\u003cbr/\u003e              A handwritten note, from Albert Einstein to a young woman, is to be auctioned in Jerusalem.\u003cbr/\u003e              It's believed the 22-year-old caught the scientist's eye during a trip to Italy.\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE\u003cbr/\u003e              For Albert Einstein, it turns out the law of attraction was relative.\u003cbr/\u003e              A handwritten note by the Nobel-winning scientist, written to a young woman who apparently caught his eye during a trip to Italy, is set to go on sale at a Jerusalem auction today (Tuesday).\u003cbr/\u003e              The Winner's auction house says that Einstein was visiting his sister in Florence in October 1921 and learned that a young chemistry student named Elisabetta Piccini lived in the apartment upstairs. \u003cbr/\u003e              It claims the 42-year-old Einstein was interested in meeting the 22-year-old woman, who was the daughter of a famous chemist, but she was too shy and turned him down.\u003cbr/\u003e              When Einstein left Florence, he left the signed note: \"To the scientific researcher, at whose feet I lay and sat for two full days, as a friendly souvenir.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The phrase \"to lie at somebody's feet\" is an expression of affection in German.\u003cbr/\u003e              Gal Wiener, chief executive of the Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions, called the note \"outrageous.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \"She didn't want to meet famous people. She was modest and he left her a note,\" he says. \"You know nowadays the 'MeToo\" campaign? Probably Einstein would have been in this campaign by leaving such a note to this lady.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Tuesday's auction also includes a 1928 letter from Einstein to his colleague Herman Muntz, in which the auction house says he lays out ideas for his 'Third Stage of the Theory of Relativity', and a photo of Einstein smoking a pipe.\u003cbr/\u003e              Last October, Winner's sold another Einstein letter, with his thoughts about happiness, for 1.3 million US Dollars.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We've been selling Einstein items for quite a long time now and we have a tremendous success,\" Wiener says.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We see movement of many many people, I'm talking about millions, all around the world that are interested in Einstein, not just the mathematical, the physical part, also his personal life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Jerusalem - 27 February 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Letter from Einstein to young woman, being auctioned at Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Set up shot of Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions, sitting with Einstein letter\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We see here a note that Einstein left to a lady, a young lady that he never met, but this note is I would say outrageous. He was in Venice for a few days and he just had rented a room or maybe he slept in a room and above him, there was a young girl, a scientist that lived and Einstein wanted to meet her. We don't know why but what we do know is that he left a note, the lady didn't want to meet him, she didn't want to meet famous people, she was modest and he left her a note.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Cutaway of note that was left by Einstein to the lady\u003cbr/\u003e              5. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions reading Einstein's note to the lady\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To the scientific researcher at whose feet I slept and sat for two full days as a friendly souvenir. What do you mean to (with) slept and sat for two full days, you never met the lady.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Cutaway of Einstein's signature on note to the lady\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"You know nowadays the 'MeToo' campaign, probably Einstein would have been in this campaign by leaving such a note to this lady.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Cutaway of letter on third stage of Einstein's theory of relativity\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Gal Wiener holding letter\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This letter is written and signed by Professor Einstein, it's regarding the unified field theory of gravitational forces and electromagnetism. It's written to one of his colleagues, it's a very important letter and it's the third stage of the Einstein theory of relativity.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Picture of Einstein with pipe on wall\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Tilt up of picture of Einstein with pipe\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We've been selling Einstein items for quite a long time now and we have a tremendous success and we see movement of many, many people. I'm talking about millions, all around the world that are interested in Einstein, not just the mathematical, the physical part, also his personal life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Gal Wiener holding picture of Einstein with pipe  \u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We sold the Einstein note, \"The way to happiness\", for over 1.5 million dollars, which is very nice, it's a very nice amount actually, it's much more than what we expected and here we have some other notes that show different sides of Einstein. For example, Einstein was a sophisticated person, he writes in a note 'be pleasant to people but indifferent to their behaviour and opinions'. So who are you Albert Einstein? Are you indifferent or sensitive? This is one note.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various of Einstein letter\u003cbr/\u003e              17. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"A student sent a question to Einstein, he asked him what to do in life, which profession should I learn? and Einstein gives him a point which is very nice. He says the main thing is this, if you have come across a question which interests you deeply, stick to it for years and do never try to content yourself with the solution of superficial problems promising relatively easy success. In another way, Einstein told him, listen, go with your truth and keep on until you find it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              18. Mid of letter to student\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Close of letter to student \u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Gal Wiener, CEO of Winner's Auctions and Exhibitions\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're selling here a piece of history, we want people to know who was Einstein? What were his thoughts and how did he behave and we want everybody to take part of it. It can be a photo, it can be a letter that he wrote, it can be a note. Einstein has 19 million people following up on his Facebook and I don't think there is many people like him.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              21. 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