Albert Einstein (mar 14, 1879 – apr 18, 1955)
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- Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, and died on April 18, 1955.- He was a famous physicist and one of the most influential of the 20th century.
- He proposed that light could be described as quanta of energy called photons that behaved as if they were particles (quantum law). This disproved classical physics which viewed light as a form of energy.
- Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for Physics.
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mar 14, 1879
apr 18, 1955
~ 76 years