ABOUT ALBERT EINSTEIN

Physicist, Scientist (1879–1955) Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity. He is considered the most influential physicist of the 20t2
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Born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in a secular, middle-class Jewish family. His father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who, with his brother, founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured electrical equipment in Munich, Germany. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein had one sister, Maja, born two years after him.

Einstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. However, he felt alienated and struggled with the rigid Prussian education he received there. He also experienced a speech difficulty, a slow cadence in his speaking where he’d pause to consider what to say next. In later years, Einstein would write about two events that had a marked effect on his childhood. One was an encounter with a compass at age five, where he marveled at the invisible forces that turned the needle. The other was at age 12, when he discovered a book of geometry which he re

ABOUT SIR ISAAC NEWTON

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• English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his law of gravitation
• was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.

MARY LEAKEY

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• Mary Leakey was a paleoanthropologist who,
• along with husband Louis, made several prominent scientific discoveries
• Skull fossils found by the Leakeys advanced our understanding of human
• evolution.

THOMAS EDISON

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• Inventor Thomas Edison created such great innovations as the electric light bulb and the phonograph.
• A savvy businessman, he held more than a 1,000 patents for his inventions.

STEPHEN HAWKING

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• Stephen Hawking is the former Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambr
• idge and author of A Brief History of Time which was an international bestseller.