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Albert Einstein
1879–1955 · Physics
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist whose work reshaped our understanding of space, time, mass and energy. In 1905, his 'miracle year', he published the special theory of relativity and, shortly after, showed that a body's energy and mass are equivalent — the relationship now written as E = mc². It means a small amount of mass corresponds to an enormous amount of energy, because the speed of light squared is so large. He went on to develop the general theory of relativity (1915), describing gravity as the curvature of spacetime, and received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. His mass–energy relation underlies our understanding of stars, nuclear energy, and particle physics.
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