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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: 85. Chapters: People associated with the University of Zurich, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, Louis Agassiz, Wilhelm Rontgen, Max Born, Jean Piaget, Walther Nernst, Rosa Luxemburg, Carl Jung, Max von Laue, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz, Klaus Clusius, Eugene W. Hilgard, Edward Kofler, Albert Hofmann, Adolf Meyer, Walter Burkert, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Roland Scholl, Leopold Ru i ka, Gazi Yasargil, A.V. Turicia, Ernst Zermelo, Charles Ritcheson, Auguste Forel, Karl Alexander Muller, Richard Courant, Maurice Edmond Muller, Georg Buchner, Erwin Fues, Hermann Rorschach, Carl Spitteler, Adolf Muschg, Paul Karrer, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Constantin von Monakow, Jules Angst, Robert Tobler, Rolf Henne, Johann Caspar von Orelli, Heinrich Dernburg, Nicholas Kemmer, Walter Rudolf Hess, Bernhard von Gudden, Ludimar Hermann, Guido Fanconi, Ludwig Lichtheim, Walter Jakob Gehring, Eugen Huber, Bernhard Hirzel, Charles Weissmann, Rolf Pfeifer, Gennosuke Fuse. 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 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 subsequen...
