Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)German-born
naturalised Swiss and American physicist. He is arguably the twentieth century’s
most famous scientific figure. His output included the theories of <!g>special
relativity (1905) and <!g>general relativity (1915), which revolutionised the
classical mechanical understanding of space, time and gravitation.
He
made fundamental contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and
<!g>quantum theory. Later in his life, following his emigration to the United States
and appointment at Princeton University in New Jersey, he searched for a unified
theory of gravitation and <!g>electromagnetism. He complained that the new quantum
theory was fundamentally incomplete without this unification. It remains one of
the physical sciences greatest unsolved puzzles.
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