Ferdinand Schmutzer / Adam Cuerden · Public domain（via Wikimedia Commons）
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- Scientists
- Nationality
- Switzerland, United States
- Born
- 1879-03-14
- Died
- 1955-04-18
- Wikidata
- Q937
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Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist born in Germany.
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The special theory of relativity was proposed in 1905, and the main theory of general relativity was completed in 1915.
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Received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, for reasons related specifically to the law of the photoelectric effect, not to the theory of relativity.
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