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"Dr. McKenna: Hello, Dorothy. Max:  'Why did you call me Dorothy? When you came into the room, you said, 'Hello, Dorothy.' Why?' Dr. McKenna:  'Because, Max, I believe that's who you really are. I believe you are the daughter of the young professors Susan and Timothy. The little girl they, very accidentally, transported into the future during their 1921 experiments, which, of course, were done while Albert Einstein was visiting the Princeton campus.'" — Dr. Shannon McKenna discussing Max's heritage, Max Einstein: Saves The Future

            

Dorothy (b. 22 April 1921), also known as Maxine Einstein for the majority of the series, was a genius working for the CMI. She is the main protagonist of the Max Einstein series named after her. The daughter of Susan and Timothy (last name unknown), two brilliant yet slightly absentminded scientists, she is often referred to as the most intelligent girl in the world, and therefore was desired by both the Change Makers Institute and the Corporation. One day in 1921, Maxine was left in a basket in the university basement while her parents were testing out a time machine, which used a lot of electricity and power. The testing was unsucessful, and the time machine collasped and Maxine, along with their designs and drawings, disappeared and reappeared in the 21st Century.

Maxine was discovered by Zacchaeus Zimm, who worked for the Corp. He hired nannies for her, all of whom reported strange occurrences involving Maxine. He then dropped her off at multiple foster cares in New York City. She would later grow up to be a 12-year-old student at NYU, and a squatter.

The CMI was finally able to recruit her, and she led them on many missions to save the world, like providing electricity to the DRC in Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment, ending world hunger in Max Einstein: Saves the Future, and solving an irrigation problem in India in Max Einstein: Rebels with a Cause.

  

Early Life
Max was named Dorothy her birth in 1921 on the 22nd of April. Her parents Susan and Timothy were brilliant professors who built a time machine in the house. One day in 1921, they tested the time machine but it use a lot of electricity and power. It collapsed and disappeared along with all of the designs, drawings, and a young Max. Upon her arrival at 2008, she was found by Dr. Zacchaeus Zimm in the basement of a house that he rented. Max was then found crawling in the basement of the University Basement by Dr. Zimm, who named her Maxine. Dr. Zimm even had multiple nannies babysit her, all reporting to him that Max had a very interesting ability and unusual intelligence for such a young child her age. Dr. Zimm then realized that she could be useful for the Corp, but didn't want to take care of her anymore, so he left her with a big suitcase and sent her to Mr. Kennedy, a squatter in the stable. Max was very young at the time and didn't know that Dr. Zimm was her first "father," which makes a very interesting plot that James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, the authors of Max Einstein could elaborate on. Dr. Zimm would name her Max Einstein after finding the cover sheet called 'The Maximum Application of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity". Dr. Zimm hired nannies and nurses to look after her.

Becoming a Squatter
Before meeting the CMI, Max was a mere squatter with a suitcase and an education at NYU. She would eat noodles for free at the local noodle shop. In Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment, Max was first seen as a young genius and tried to help the living conditions of the other squatters in her "home." She was arguing with the police to stop the arrest of Mrs. Rabinowitz. She also came up with a brilliant plan to borrow horse manure to warm the other squatters. She also played speed chess with Mr. Weinstock in the park on her way to New York University every day.

Meeting the CMI
When she was recruited, Max was very curious about her past and asked Charl and Isabl loads of questions on her first day in Israel, the home to the CMI headquarters. She met lots of friends, including some of her closest, Siobhan, a genius geoscientist from Ireland, and Tisa, a genius biochemist from Kenya. The girls were both her age and intelligence range. The trio and the other geniuses, Toma, Keeto, Klaus, Hana, and Annika took a test to determine who was the leader of their first project. Max won, and she became the leader of the first project, bringing electricity to an African village. The projects were big projects to save the world, not petty projects that were ok to mess up on. There was room for improvisation of course, but it was not a loose project. However, Max requested that the other competitors join her on the project.

The First Mission
Max suggested that the group choose a project with solar panels, and they decided to travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But unbeknownst to her, after she and Annika had gotten lost at the Einstein Archives and indirectly blamed it on another CMI member, Yahav, Yahav was working for the Corporation, a group that threatened to undo everything the CMI had done. He placed an Einstein doll in her luggage that tracked her every move.

The CMI team, except Klaus, who stayed behind to work on the solar panels, traveled by plane to the DRC. There they met Patrick and Emmanuel, citizens of the DRC. Max learned that the conditions were so bad that the children had to work in the day, mining without masks or gloves on, leading to illnesses. That night, the CMI enjoyed DRC delicacies, like grasshoppers and caterpilllars. On the third day, Klaus flew to the DRC, bringing Yahav along. He had brought the solar panels with him, but he had gotten a bargain.

Shortly after they started working, and Siobhan had calmed down, Mr. Weber, a man associated with the Corporation, arrived. Yahav had also gone missing. Weber arrived with Mr. Kabila, who strongly believed that the children were destined to work in the mines. But Weber soon received a message from the Corporation that ordered him to leave. After they had left, Max went to work, and while the first home lit up, the others did not. Max, instead of feeling like a genius, felt more like a failure. After they got it fixed the next day, they went to lunch, but while they were gone, Mr. Kabila and his crew destroyed the solar panels.

While the rest of her crew considered giving up, Max stood her ground and thought of an idea that combined solar energy and wind, solar panels and wind turbines. But unbeknownst to anyone, Vihaan was going to get captured by the Corporation. Klaus followed soon. Kabila was replaced with Roland, and Max formed an alliance with Kabila. But Dr. Zimm was there. He attempted to make Max climb up a ladder to a helicopter to find out more about her past. But Max remained loyal to the CMI and fled back to the headquarters to her apartment that the benefactor had given her.

Rebels with a Cause
Max had 2 missions to accomplish in the second book, but before that, she was teaching classes under the alias of "Adjunct Professor Paula Ehrenfest. She was told by Ben, who was the benefactor and her boss, to keep a low profile as the Corp was on them, hiring agents such as Friedrich Hoffman and Pinky Mulligan. However, this bored her deeply. It all went wrong when Max was teaching a class and a student started being disrespectful, resulting in that student getting wrestled to the floor by Jamal and Danny, Max's bodyguards hired by Ben. This caused an unwanted newspaper article featuring Max where anyone could identify her, especially the Corp, now that they had Lenard, a giggling robot. Her friend Siobhan showed up to ask Max to lead a project for Ireland as everyone was getting very sick. Max agreed to do so, but the Corp agents recognized her immediately and gave chase. They made it into Max's apartment just in time to meet Tisa. They met Charl and Isabl in a car while Corp goons chased them. As defense, the group threw cheeseburgers at the goons. Benjamin Abercrombie, the benefactor, was waiting for them at Long Island.

There was a security checkpoint, a sleek jet on the runway, a stretch limousine parked beside it, and two tents set up in the parking lot — the type people would see at a fancy outdoor party. Ben came down the steps of the jet while Siobhan remarked that he was a fine-looking fellow, while Max replied that he wasn't her fellow.

Piling out of the convertible, Siobhan and Tisa sprinted to greet the benefactor, who they deemed surprisingly young.

Saves the Future
Next, the CMI were on to their next mission: ending world hunger. This time including Leo, a new member of the team. But there were spies and traitors in their midst. Max loses the exam to become the leader. It hurt her to see the demotion from Ben, her billionaire boss who funds the projects. Instead, Hana, the Japanese Botanist, and Ms. Kaplan led the project. But it was soon found that they betrayed the CMI, leading them straight into danger. Max also saved her team from a motorcyclist belonging to the Corp, making them throw their luggage at him and fire hamburgers on him. In this adventure, Max learns more about her past and who she is.

WCMEA
Benjamin Abercrombie sent Max and Siobhan to Greenland's Jakoshavn Glacier because global warming was causing the ice to disappear at an alarming rate. He had also terminated the CMI's security detail, Charl and Isabl, something that Max regretted later.

Running Out of Time
Max Einstein and her colleague Siobhan were racing across the glaciers being chased by some mysterious new competition.

Physical Appearance
Max is a girl of average height with curly bright red/orangish hair with brown eyes, a trench coat, freckles, a shabby sweater, and jeans.

"Her red hair, of course, was a bouncing tangle of wild curls. It was always a bouncing tangle of wild curls." -The Genius Experiment

Personality and Traits
Her hero is Albert Einstein who was also her parent's hero. She has a suitcase full of Albert Einstein quotes and toys and books. She is rumored to be the smartest genius in the CMI. She is a curious girl who thinks like her hero and acknowledges things that happen around her. She is also very open-minded and leaves room for improvisation, unlike Hana. She hated tests, just like Albert Einstein. Max also likes to put sayings into the tests that she takes. For example, when she took the test to determine the leader for the third project of the CMI. She said, "I am not a fish, climbing a tree," derived from the quote "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking it is stupid. She used to live in a horse stable at the bottom of an apartment until she was found by Charl and Isabl of the CMI. Max once described them as her bodyguards, since they were very careful not to lose her to Dr. Zimm of the Corp, a corporation bound to destroy the works of the CMI. Max is very cerebral and will find a scientific solution out of any possible problem. She believes in anything that Albert Einstein believes in, such as time traveling. This was proven when she time traveled from 1921 to 2020 as a baby. Max also imagines Albert Einstein sometimes, and talks to him in her imagination. However, although he knew her parents, he was unable to tell her about her past. Overall, Max is very energetic, funny, kind, smart, and empathetic towards the world. In the 3rd book, Max is mentioned to love Honey Buns, a swirled piece of fried dough soaked with sugary sauce.

Possessions
"Max couldn't remember where the suitcase came from. She'd just always had it. It was older than her rumpled knit sweater, and that thing was an antique." -- The Genius Experiment This is the list of things that Max Einstein owned throughout the books in the series.


 * Suitcase: The suitcase that Max carried around was probably the oldest thing she possessed. She had used it to turn it into a display case for all things Albert Einstein to decorate her sleeping space. She had many books by and about the famous scientist and her collection of Einstein photographs and quotes. She even had an Einstein bobblehead doll she had found in a museum store dumpster. She had used it as a bookend. The oldest photograph in her collection was pasted inside the suitcase lid and showed Albert Einstein lost in thought with his hands clasped together. However, the suitcase did not stay forever. In Saves the Future, to slow down the Corp vehicle that was following the CMI, Max and her teammates sacrificed their luggage to save themselves from the Corp.
 * Parents ' Photograph: It is unknown if Max genuinely possessed this, but she had a photograph of her parents and a baby version of herself, seen in the third book, Saves the Future.

Abilities
"Max Einstein is your not-so typical 12-year-old genius...A village in India is having a life-threatening crisis that only a group of kid geniuses can fix, so Max and her Change Maker friends hightail it out there. But it's hard to focus when you're trying not to be kidnapped by a greedy corporation that seems to know your every move. Can the smartest girl in the world figure out how to save the world?" -- Max Einstein: Rebels with a Cause


 * Intellectual Genius: Maxine has demonstrated her intellectual genius multiple times over the span of the 3 books. At her pre-teens, Max had already enrolled herself into New York University, all the while trying to keep a low profile. She also came up with the idea of combining electricity and wind, a windmill, to save the DRC. She also overthinks many things. When a fly came into a train, she thought about how fast it was traveling, even after a man slapped the fly dead.
 * Creativity: Maxine proved herself to be a both creative and imaginative genius, to the point where her favorite Albert Einstein quote was: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." She is also shown to be quite resourceful, using hamburgers and luggage to slow the Corporation down.
 * Leadership Skills: Though enclosed in a lot of self doubt, Max nevertheless led her teammates to victory. Being chosen as the team leader in Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment and Max Einstein: Rebels with a Cause, the missions were a huge success.
 * Empathy: Despite her being chosen as team leader, Maxine was not glad. She was instead empathetic to her 9 other contestants and negotiated for them to join her team, despite them being her rivals.

Appearances

 * Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment - First book of the Max Einstein Series
 * Max Einstein: Rebels with a Cause - Second book of the Max Einstein Series
 * Max Einstein: Saves the Future - Third book of the Max Einstein Series

Dorothy
Dr. McKenna: "Hello, Dorothy." Max: ''"Why did you call me Dorothy? When you came into the room, you said, 'Hello, Dorothy.' Why?" Dr. McKenna: "Because, Max, I believe that's who you really are. I believe you are the daughter of the young professors Susan and Timothy. The little girl they, very accidentally, transported into the future during their 1921 experiments, which, of course, were done while Albert Einstein was visiting the Princeton campus."''

--Saves the Future

Dorothy is a female given name that is a less common variant form of Dorothea, meaning "God's Gift." It is also related to names such as Theodore and Theodora. The name is commonly abbreviated to "Dot", "Dolly", and "Dotty". The name had grown in popularity and became one of the top 10 girls' names in the USA until 1961. Then, it declined in popularity and was last ranked as the top 1000 popular names for American newborn girls in 2006, where it was ranked #986. It declined even more when 235 girls in America were given the name in 2010. However, only 20 girls in the United States were given the name Dorothea in 2010.[5]

Max Einstein
Max Einstein was not named Maxine for any reason listed below. She was named Maxine after the Maximum Theorem. She was named by Dr. Zacchaeus Zimm.

Real world
Maxine is a feminine given name and a counterpart of the boy's name Max. However, Max is also a shortened version of Maxine. Maxine can also be spelled as Maxene, and its masculine forms are Max, Maxmillian, Maxwell, and Maxmilian. In Ancient Rome, the name was pronounced Maximiliana, Maximilienne in France, and Maximiliane and Maxi in Germany. Maxine, along with its masculine and variant forms, means "Greatest", a word that very well describes the heroine Max Einstein.

Popularity of the Name Maxine

Einstein
Max's last name is probably derived from the renowned scientist, Albert Einstein, whom Max looks up to and views as a role model. He was also fond of Max's parents, who he said understood his theories better than he did himself. Many people doubt, including Max's former professor, Phillip Stark, that Einstein is authentically her last name. It seemed unlikely that the genius girl was actually related to her role model.

In the third book, Max Einstein Saves the Future, readers find out that Einstein was not really her last name, and just a name that she could be identified to. Her real surname is unknown at the moment. Albert Einstein was just a person that her parents looked up to, admired, and worked with.

Or it could be from the Einstein Family, with Albert's first and second wife, and other relatives, but this has not been confirmed at the moment. The Einstein family is also connected to the Koch, Moos, and Overnauer. Albert Einstein's second wife, Elsa, was actually his cousin, whose mother was his sister, Fanny Koch.

Relatives
Max's Relatives

Ben Abercrombie
Ben also known as the benefactor for the CMI, Change Makers Institute, is Max's friend and has a special relationship with Max. Probably due to the fact that they are both orphans. In the books, it is hinted that Ben might have developed a crush on Max. However, Max insists that she and Ben are just close friends. Max is often teased by her friends (Siobhan and Klaus) about her relationship with Ben and Siobhan claims that Ben is her 'boyfriend'.

"  'Ooh,' teased Siobhan. 'You and Max are having yourselves a private little dinner date, eh?' " -Rebels With A Cause

Tisa
Tisa is one of her best friends and fellow change maker. Tisa is one of Max's closest friends, along with Siobhan from Ireland. She is a millionaire's daughter because her dad is very rich and is from Kenya, Africa. She is a biochemist, and Max thought if Tisa could help with finding out her mysterious past.

Siobhan
Siobhan is a 12 year old genius geoscientist from Ireland. She views the earth as her primary patient and works to save it. She is close friends with Max. She defended Max from Ms. Kaplan and shouted at her for attempting to lure Max by calling Ms. Kaplan "bloody cailleach". She was aggressive when Hana and Annika said that Max was a curse to the team. She is a good-hearted person despite her fiery temper and loud snores.

Yahav
Yahav was a former member of the CMI, but he betrayed them when he was exposed working against the team and with the Corporation. He let Max and Annika go to the Einstein Archives without his supervision. Max didn't fully trust him in the beginning.

Annika
Annika is a logicist from Germany. She and Max share the same interest in exploring and they explored the Albert Einstein Archives together. She is a master of formal logic, which, she would argue, is a type of science, even though it is not based on observations, empirical evidence or data. She always tried to find a logical solution to every problem.

Susan & Timothy
Susan and Timothy were both young professors that were Max's parents. They accidentally transported her into the future and she vanished to 2020, 99 years from the past.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was like her grandfather, mentor, and role model all at the same time. She even has a talk with him in her imagination at night when she couldn’t sleep.

Charl & Isabl
Charl and Isabl were the people that introduced Max to the CMI in the first place. They had high expectations for her and supported her even though they were tailed by the Corp.

Klaus
At first, Max did not think Klaus is trustworthy as he got tricked into carrying his phone around, making the Corp track the CMI. However, she warms up to him a little bit as the series progresses. She and Klaus eventually complete projects together for the team.

Shannon McKenna
Shannon McKenna is the person who first told Max about her past. Max had to contemplate learning more with her or going on the mission to officially end world hunger.

Hana
Max was quite jealous of Hana in the third book after she got replaced by her in being the 'chosen one'. Max suspected that Hana might be working for the Corp and she was right. In The Genius Experiment, Max joked that plants were all she ate.

Quotes

 * "I'm fine, Mr. Kennedy. In fact, I'm better than fine! I've got something really great here! At least I think it's something great. Anyway, it's really, really cool. This idea could change everything. It could save our world. It's what Mr. Albert Einstein would've called an 'aha' moment." -- Max to Mr. Kennedy, explaining her world changing idea.
 * "Tests? Like in school?" -- Max, dreading the competition test
 * I hate tests. I don't like competition. Or being judged. -- Max's thoughts about tests and competition [4]
 * "Now you're quoting Albert Einstein." -- Max to Isabl
 * "Yeah. Let's do this thing. Let's go make Dr. Einstein proud." -- Max's agreement to compete in the competition
 * I am not a fish climbing a tree. -- Max's answer to one of the questions in the test