Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Albert Einstein
German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
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Primary Contributions (1)
The revolution experienced by modern physics began to be reflected in the 12th edition (1922) of the Encyclopædia Britannica with Sir James Jeans’s article “Relativity.” In the 13th edition (1926) a wholly new topic, “Space-Time,” was discussed by the person most qualified in all the world to do…
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