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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: 44. Chapters: Albert Einstein, Peter Debye, Wilhelm Rontgen, Theodor Mommsen, Conrad Bursian, Lorenz Oken, Albert A. Buhlmann, Roland Scholl, Bruno Frey, Alfred Werner, Theodor Billroth, Gregor Wentzel, Karl Wilhelm von Nageli, Daniel Thurer, Volker Strassen, Andre Dreiding, Ernst Fehr, Oswald Heer, Edwin Klebs, Max Huber, Walter Thiel, Richard Avenarius, Walter Rudolf Hess, Bruno Hildebrand, Rudolf Wolf, Maximilian von Frey, Paul Finsler, Karl Joseph Eberth, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Edmund Rose, Carel van Schaik, Marc Amsler, Walle Nauta, Michael Anton Biermer, Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt, Otto Haab, Otto Stoll, Georg Ruge, Johann Friedrich Horner, Gustav Huguenin, Otto Busse, Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler, Friedrich Goll, Rudolf Ulrich Kronlein, Walter Burckhardt, Nikola Biller-Andorno, Hans Schinz, Otto Volger, Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel, Carl Eduard Cramer, Hugo Blumner, Ludwig Hirzel, Karl Dilthey, Marie Theres Fogen. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (;German: 14 March 1879 - 18 April 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 development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theo...
