On April 22, 1979, the National Academy of Sciences celebrated the Einstein Centennial with a lasting memorial to the late physicist. Situated on the Academy grounds, overlooking Constitution Avenue and the Lincoln Memorial, Berks's Einstein sits in a familiar pose, holding a pad containing his three major equations. He contemplates a celestial map of stainless steel studs set in a black granite base. The thirty-foot star chart at Einstein's feet is the largest and most accurate in the world. The concept for the Einstein Monument occurred in 1953 when Einstein sat for Berks while he worked in his Princeton, N. J. study. Of this, Einstein wrote, "I admire the bust highly as a portrait and not less as a work of art and a characterization of mental personality."

The Einstein Monument was followed by a tribute to another scientific giant, the Eighteenth Century Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnæus. In September 1983, the Chicago Botanic Garden unveiled Berks's tableau in bronze that pays homage to the father of modern taxonomy. As with Einstein and its celestial map, this monument was also designed to educate as well as commemorate. Linnæus, depicted as a young man, kneels to pluck a wild rose. The twenty-one foot figure is flanked by sculptured forms representing more than one hundred botanically accurate, identifiable plant, animal and insect specimens relevant to Linnæus's lifelong dedication to systemic classification. Chicago school children learn botany as they climb over Berks's tribute in bronze.