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Albert Einstein as a young child
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Albert Einstein at work in his study, 1920
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Albert Einstein in 1921
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Albert Einstein in 1947
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Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheirmer, leader of the secret Manhattan Project that developed the world's first atomic bomb
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Albert Einstein obtains his American citizenship, 1940
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Photograph of the 1919 solar eclipse that helped to prove Einstein's general theory of relativity.
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Albert Einstein at work in the Swiss Patent Office, 1904
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Albert Einstein in 1905, the year he published a series of groundbreaking articles that revolutionized theoretical physics.
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In 1905, the German Annalen Der Physik was the world's leading physics journal. Albert Einstein, then a young man working in the Swiss patent office, published three separate revolutionary articles in the journal's volume 17.
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Einstein's hand-scrawled mathematical proof points toward E=mc2.
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Einstein on the cover of Time magazine, 1929
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The famous physicist sticks his tongue out at a photographer, 1951.