Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1934. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics, and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the atomic age.
“You are the only contemporary physicist, besides Laue, who sees
that one cannot get around the assumption of reality—if only one is
honest. Most of them simply do not see what sort of risky game they
are playing with reality—reality as something independent of what
is experimentally established.” —Albert Einstein to Erwin
Schrödinger
“I am as convinced as ever that the wave representation of matter
is an incomplete representation of the state of affairs, no matter
how practically useful it has proved itself to be.” —Albert
Einstein to Erwin Schrödinger
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