Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955 20th Century German (later Swiss and American)

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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, with his special relativity theory in 1905 explaining the invariance of the laws of physics in inertial reference frames and the general theory in 1915 incorporating gravity via spacetime curvature. His equation E=mc² revealed mass-energy equivalence, and he contributed to quantum theory via the photoelectric effect, earning the 1921 Nobel Prize. Renowned for thought experiments, visual reasoning, and profound philosophical insights, Einstein fled Nazi Germany in 1933, becoming a U.S. citizen and advocating for peace, civil rights, and Zionism while maintaining skepticism toward quantum indeterminacy.

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