A pedestrian walks past the Shanghai Sci [Getty Images]

A pedestrian walks past the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai on June 8, 2011 where an Albert Einstein exhibition financed by the Swiss government was to be held before it was cancelled over a dispute with the Chinese museum authorities. While neither the Shanghai nor the Bern museums commented officially, according various reports the project was shelved after the Chinese museum wanted to merge it with another one on Chinese philosopher Confucius. AFP PHOTO/Philippe Lopez (Photo credit should read PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

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