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Albert Einstein

1879 - 1955

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Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Einstein is the 2nd most popular physicist, the 2nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular German Physicist.

Albert Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity. He developed the theory in 1905 and it is now one of the most important theories in modern physics. The theory states that time and space are not absolute and that they are relative to the observer. It also states that the speed of light is constant.

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Among physicists, Albert Einstein ranks 2 out of 851. Before him are Isaac Newton. After him are Marie Curie, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm Röntgen, Michael Faraday, Niels Bohr, Hans Christian Ørsted, Max Planck, Alessandro Volta, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Among people born in 1879, Albert Einstein ranks 1. After him are Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Owen Willans Richardson, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, and Emiliano Zapata. Among people deceased in 1955, Albert Einstein ranks 1. After him are Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, José Ortega y Gasset, Arthur Honegger, Sadako Sasaki, James B. Sumner, Alberto Ascari, Fernand Léger, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Albert Einstein ranks 2 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770). After him are Pope Benedict XVI (1927), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Martin Luther (1483), Karl Marx (1818), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), Johannes Gutenberg (1394), Friedrich Nietzsche (1844), and Charlemagne (748).

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Among physicists born in Germany, Albert Einstein ranks 1. After him are Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Max Planck (1858), Werner Heisenberg (1901), Georg Ohm (1789), Heinrich Hertz (1857), Max Born (1882), Max von Laue (1879), Hermann von Helmholtz (1821), Johannes Stark (1874), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), and Georg Bednorz (1950).

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