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In the early decades on the 20^th century, two new theories of "modern physics", [[Relativity]] and [[Quantum Mechanics]], had come into existence.  Both were known for being very abstruse.  He popularized them, both for experts and for the general public.  He particularly worked on getting relativity better known, both by the scientific community and by the public.  [[General Relativity]] was something he worked especially hard at.

In the early decades on the 20^th century, two new theories of "modern physics", [[Relativity]] and [[Quantum Mechanics]], had come into existence.  Both were known for being very abstruse.  He popularized them, both for experts and for the general public.  He particularly worked on getting relativity better known, both by the scientific community and by the public.  [[General Relativity]] was something he worked especially hard at.

He is best known for his observations of the bending of light from stars in the vicinity of the sun during a total [[eclipse]].  This had been predicted by General Relativity, but the theory was so esoteric that even the scientific community had a difficult time with it.  The problem was compounded by the fact that Einstein was German, and the controversy was around the time of [[World War I]].  His claimed success (not fully justified—see below) immediately propelled Einstein (and, to a lesser extent, Eddington), to worldwide fame, even though the public still understood virtually nothing about relativity.

He is best known for his observations of the bending of light from stars in the vicinity of the sun during a total [[eclipse]].  This had been predicted by General Relativity, but the theory was so esoteric that even the scientific community had a difficult time with it.  The problem was compounded by the fact that Einstein was German, and the controversy was around the time of [[World War I]], when America and Western Europe were not positively disposed toward Germans.  His claimed success (not fully justified—see below) immediately propelled Einstein (and, to a lesser extent, Eddington), to worldwide fame, even though the public still understood virtually nothing about relativity.

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