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(March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955)

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"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of
the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most
primitive forms are accessible to our minds - it is this knowledge and this
emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense, and this alone,
I am a deeply religious man."

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist of Swiss and American citizenship, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century.
He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology.
He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".
After his general theory of relativity was formulated in November 1915, Einstein became world famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist.
In his later years, his fame exceeded that of any other scientist in history, and in popular culture, Einstein has become a byword for great genius.
In 1999, he was named "Person of the Century" by Time magazine.
Einstein was deeply concerned with the social impact of scientific discovery.
A person of great intellectual achievement, he remains the most influential theoretical physicist of the modern era.

Einstein's reverence for all creation, his belief in the grandeur, beauty, and sublimity of the universe (the primary source of inspiration in science), his awe for the scheme that is manifested in the material universe—all of these show through in his work and philosophy.
Late in 1905 he showed one further deduction from relativity's axioms, the famous equation that the energy of a body at rest (E) equals its mass (m) times the speed of light (c) squared.
To this day Einstein receives popular recognition unprecedented for a scientist.
Among Einstein's many namesakes are:

  • a unit used in photochemistry, the einstein.
  • the chemical element 99, einsteinium.
  • the asteroid 2001 Einstein.
  • the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
  • the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University was named after Einstein upon his death in 1955.

     

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