Einstein
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Albert 1879–1955, German physicist, U.S. citizen from 1940: formulator of the theory of relativity; Nobel Prize 1921.
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Alfred 1880–1952, German musicologist in U.S.
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(lowercase) a unit of radiant energy, equal to the energy of radiation that is capable of photochemically changing one mol of a photosensitive substance.
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The “wormhole” interpretation emerged decades after Einstein and Rosen’s work, when physicists speculated about crossing from one side of spacetime to the other, most notably in the late-1980s research.
From Science Daily • May 22, 2026
Proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime by mass, similar to how a heavy object distorts a stretched surface.
From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026
A hundred years ago Einstein himself held to the then-standard belief that the universe had no beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
In 1931, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein was spending his first winter at Caltech, and he wrote to a friend, “Here in Pasadena, it is like Paradise. Always sunshine and clear air …”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
“Education is the key! Who knows if one of those little tigueritos in the mercado isn’t an Einstein or Michelangelo or maybe even a Cervantes!”
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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