Born 14 Mar 1879; died 18 Apr 1955 at age 76.
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Born 14 Mar 1879; died 18 Apr 1955 at age 76.
German-American #physicist who developed the special and general theories of #relativity and won the Nobel Prize for #Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the #photoelectric effect. Recognized in his own time as one of the most #creative #intellects in human history, in the first 15 years of the 20th century Einstein advanced a series of theories that proposed entirely new ways of thinking about #space, #time, and #gravitation. His theories of relativity and gravitation were a profound advance over the old Newtonian physics and revolutionized scientific and philosophic inquiry.
