Albert Einstein let his wife cut his hair because he did not want to pay for a barber and ate fried eggs for breakfast every day, a new book has revealed.

The Noble Prize winner, who developed the theory of relativity, also wore shoes with holes in them in a bid to save money and only drank caffeine-free coffee.

The fascinating details of the scientist's life have been revealed in Einstein at Home, which will be published in English for the first time next month. 

Albert Einstein let his wife cut his hair because he did not want to pay for a barber and ate fried eggs for breakfast every day, a book has revealed. He is pictured with his second wife Elsa Loewenthal

The book contains five intimate interviews with Einstein's housekeeper Herta Waldow, who lived with the scientist for six years in Berlin.

Speaking about his eating habits, Ms Waldow revealed he liked both fried and scrambled eggs, and said he would only eat steak if it was well done. 

She added: 'Herr Professor always ate fried eggs, at least two. 

'He would probably have eaten mushrooms three times a day, that's how fond he was of them.' 

The Noble Prize winner, who developed the theory of relativity and is pictured in January 1931, also wore shoes with holes in them in a bid to save money and only drank caffeine-free coffee

According to The Telegraph, Ms Waldow also revealed that he liked to walk round his property naked.

She said: 'It was very embarrassing for me. Either Herr Professor had not bothered putting on his bathrobe, or he was too lost in thought to remember wearing it.' 

Einstein at Home will be published by Prometheus Books in May.

Culled from Mail Online