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Albert Einstein was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized and reshaped scientific thinking in the modern world. By general consent he is acknowledged as the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived.
Best known as the creator of the Theory of Relativity, Einstein would still rank among the great ....
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.... failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896 and was to be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, and then got it in 1901.
The year 1905 saw a great flowering of Einstein's creativity, and with it a turning point in the history of physics. Space and time would never again be the same, Theory Relativity. The quantum was made respectable, the Photoelectric effect. The atom likewi ....
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