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ALBERT EINSTEIN

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March 14th, 1879 - April 18th, 1955

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German mathematician and physicist who developed the special end general theories of relativity

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In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize of physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effects

He immigrated to the US after being targeted by the Nazis

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His work had a major impact on the development of atomic energy

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He asserted the equivalence of mass and energy

He challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could also be regarded as collection of particles

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He showed how to calculate Avogadro’s number and the size of the molecules

In 1929 he won the Max Planck Medal

In 1936 he was awarded the Franklin Institute’s Franklin Medal for his work on relativity

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Thomas Harvey kept his brain so he could study it without permission

Her mother was a pianist and she took Einstein to violin courses when he was 6 years old

After he separated from his first wife, he married his cousin

His eyes are kept in a safe box in New York City

He began to speak until he was 4 years old

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