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  1. Einstein, Albert 1879-1955. German-born American theoretical physicist whose special and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He won a 1921 Nobel Prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

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  • Maja Einstein is the younger sister of great scientist Albert Einstein.
  • On the pages he had diagrammed, with explanatory captions, a particularly interesting variant of what would someday be called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen theorem. —  AnalogSFF,March2008
  • Though the notion of the scientist as a kind of oracle of nature lingered on until well into the next century -- Einstein, revered as both genius and sage, is exemplary -- the idea of science as a higher calling had lost its philosophical underpinnings. —  The Nation: Top Stories
  • Newton and Einstein were almost certainly autistic and the idea that people who were not only valuable members of society but also important contributors to its future might have been eliminated before they were born raises uncomfortable questions. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • Albert Einstein was a pacifist who found German jingoism, with its ultra-nationalistic ideology and militaristic policy, so objectionable that he left his homeland in 1933, never to return. —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
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