Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[okfine]

A somewhat belated Happy Birthday, but Albert's birthday was last Tuesday, March 14th. He was born in 1879 and died on April 18th, 1955 of heart failure.

The Day Albert Einstein Died: A Photographer's Story

Pictures from a spring day in 1955, when photographer Ralph Morse raced around New Jersey in search of the late, great Albert Einstein.

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[basquebromance]

Quantum theory is so shocking that Einstein could not bring himself to accept it. It is so important that it provides the fundamental underpinning of all modern sciences. Without it, we'd have no computers, no science of molecular biology, no understanding of DNA, no genetic engineering

 

[DudleySmith]

Not to take anything away from being the first to postulate relativity, but there were 100 scientists around in his days who were just as brilliant or even smarter, including the two Brit physicists who recognized what he had proposed and saved him from obscurity.