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Theoretical physicist · 1879–1955 · Science

Rewrote space, time and gravity from a patent office desk in Bern, then spent the rest of his life arguing with quantum mechanics.

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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

Einstein, 1929 Saturday Evening Post interview

Who Albert Einstein was

Einstein could not find an academic post after graduating in Zurich, so he took a job examining patent applications in Bern. In 1905 he published four papers: on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy. Any one of them would have made a career. General relativity followed in 1915, and Eddington's 1919 eclipse observations made him famous overnight. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921, for the photoelectric work rather than relativity. He left Germany in 1933 and settled at Princeton, signed the letter warning Roosevelt about German atomic research, and later campaigned against nuclear weapons and for civil rights.

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How did you first picture riding alongside a beam of light?

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Why did quantum mechanics never satisfy you?

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What did the 1919 eclipse results feel like from where you sat?

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Do you regret the letter you signed to Roosevelt?

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What does it mean to say time is not the same for everyone?

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