# I've been footnoted (incorrectly)!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 14, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-footnoted-incorrectly/422633 "2007-10-14T01:02:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-footnoted-incorrectly/422633/1 "2007-10-14T01:02:06Z")

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I just found out that the current bestselling biography of Albert Einstein – Walter Isaacson’s **[Einstein: His Life and Universe](http://tinyurl.com/3yqtuo)** lists [my web page](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/einstein.htm) as a reference.

But it’s incorrect – my page is about my grandfather; the book says it’s about my father.

Evidently someone told Isaacson about the page and he wrote one sentence that covered some of the things I put on the web.

If you’re scoring at home, it’s footnote #2 in chapter 21.

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-footnoted-incorrectly/422633/2 "2007-10-14T01:04:57Z")

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Congratulations! … You might write him, perhaps you’ll get an errata or a correction in the next edition.