Definition for Einstein, Albert
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Einstein, Albert (1879 to 1955): Physicist born in Germany. He was an undistinguished student in Germany. He requested Swiss citizenship in 1901 and took a post with the Swiss patent office (1902-5). By the time he received his Ph.D. (1905), he had achieved world fame for his publications on Brownian movement of molecules, his photoelectric theory (for which he won a Nobel Prize) that light and other radiation can behave as both waves and particles, and for his revolutionary special theory of relativity, which displaces Newton’s concept of time by restricting unmediated judgments of simultaneity to a local framework.
