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Born March 14, 1879 • Ulm • Germany
Died April 18, 1955 (aged 76) • Princeton • New Jersey
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1925) • Nobel Prize (1921)
Subjects Of Study Brownian motion • E=mc2 • Einstein’s mass-energy relation • gravitation • gravitational wave • light • mass-energy equivalence • photoelectric effect • photon • relativity • space-time • special relativity • unified field theory

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  • J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hoped to unmask Einstein as a Soviet spy and maintained almost constant surveillance of Einstein. His FBI file totaled 1,800 pages.
  • Einstein adored playing violin and said that if he had not gone into physics, he likely would have become a musician.
  • Einstein's brain was removed without permission during his autopsy and was sent to be tested for its perceived secrets.

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