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- German-born American theoretical physicist whose theories of Special Relativity (1905) and General Relativity (1916) revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
A twentieth-century physicist; Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and moved to the United States in the 1930s. Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. His equation E = mc2 led to the development of nuclear fission and the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb).