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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 87. Chapters: Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Georg Cantor, Wernher von Braun, Niklaus Wirth, Wilhelm Rontgen, Felix Bloch, Othmar Ammann, Richard R. Ernst, Auguste Piccard, Carlos Kleiber, Fritz Haber, Rudolf Clausius, Fritz Zwicky, Mileva Mari, Santiago Calatrava, Philippe Kahn, Bernard Tschumi, Armand Borel, Roland Scholl, Simon Ammann, John Houbolt, Kjeld Rimberg, Carl von Linde, Werner Arber, Max Frisch, Alfred Werner, Karl Alexander Muller, Charles Edouard Guillaume, Justus Dahinden, Konstantin Jovanovi, Bodo Linnhoff, Hans Albert Einstein, Hermann Muller, Michel Kervaire, Tadeus Reichstein, Johannes Georg Bednorz, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Paul Scherrer, James J. Stoker, Christian Menn, Hans Frauenfelder, Nils Claus Ihlen, Preda Mih ilescu, Eduard Imhof, Henry Brunner, Hans Samelson, Heinrich Rohrer, Alfred Ilg, Duilio Arigoni, Urs Holzle, Maurice Koechlin, Konrad Bleuler, Jakob Ackeret, Corine Mauch, Rudolf Trumpy, Marcel Grossmann, Schak Bull, Richard Meyer, John Engh, Gottfried Ungerboeck, Ase Aulie Michelet, Katrin Wehrheim, Jean-Pierre Sydler, Ernst Specker, Xuejia Lai, Karl Moser, Matteo Cheda. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics. Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the de...
