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==Biography==
==Biography==
====His Notoriety====
While most [[science]] historians would claim that [[Isaac Newton]] was arguably the greatest scientist in history, Albert Einstein is surely the most widely recognized scientist in the modern world--no captions are needed on his photographs, and practically every adult in the world immediately recognizes him.
He received the [[Nobel Prize]] in 1921 for his paper on [[The Photoelectric Effect]] ''not'', surprisingly, for either of his papers on [[Relativity]]--which were to set the collective world of [[physics]] <nowiki>'on it's ear'</nowiki>.
Neither was it for his paper on inertial energy, containing the now-famous [[E=MC^2]] equation, also arguably the '''''one''''' math [[equation]] known about by practically every adult in the developed world.
Einstein's meteoric rise to world fame came after the publication of Sir [[Arthur Eddington]]'s observations on the bending of [[star]]light passing nearby the [[Sun]], which were taken during the total [[solar eclipse]] of May 29, 1919, and which were proclaimed to be the first observational proofs of Einstein's space-time [[theorem]]s of [[General Relativity]].
Effectively overnight, Einstein became famous the world over, and his name has now become synonymous in [[Western Culture]] with [[genius]].
--[[User:Knowthetruth|Knowthetruth]] 02:45, 7 March 2007 (EST)
==Famous Works==
==Famous Works==