Person Of The Century
He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood.
Articles
Einstein and the Suicide Star
It’s one thing to discover a new star, quite another to find one that hurtles through space as if it’s in a hurry to get somewhere. But try this for a scientific...
Everything Really is Relative: Einstein’s Personal Papers Now a Click Away
A few months ago Shimon Peres, the octogenarian president of Israel, had the possibly brilliant, possibly ridiculous idea of building a museum in the shape of...
Einstein Was Right All Along: ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Neutrino Was Product of Error
The universe as we know it was saved today. The instrument of its salvation, and that of the very edifice of physics itself? A fiber-optic cable in a GPS...
A Cosmic Illusion: How Gravitational Lensing Is Helping Scientists Redraw the Map of Space
You can hardly accuse Albert Einstein of being short on imagination. The man who invented General Relativity and helped invent quantum theory probably had more...
The Physics Nobel: Why Einstein Was Wrong About Being Wrong
The research that leads to a Nobel Prize in physics can sometimes be a little obscure. In 1990, for example, three scientists got the nod "for their pioneering...
Photo Essays
The Day Einstein Died: A Photographer’s Story
Albert Einstein, whose theories exploded and reshaped our ideas of how the universe works, died on April 18, 1955, of heart failure. He was 76. His funeral and...
Einstein’s Office: Genius in the Details
The death of a public figure of Albert Einstein’s stature is the sort of event that, literally and figuratively, stops the presses. No scientist has been more...
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People of the Century
TIME has profiled those individuals who — for better or worse — most influenced the last 100 years. They are considered in five fields of endeavor, culminating...
20 Things You Need to Know About Einstein
Everything you need to know about the smartest man of the 20th century
