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20 Facts You Did Not Know About.......... Einstein

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May - June 2019

Albert Einstein has been termed as a scientist of the century and has become a synonyms of intellect.

20 Facts You Did Not Know About.......... Einstein

Einstein was the greatest genius of his time, a man whose contributions to science and mathematics have been matched by just a handful of others throughout history. Anyone in the society who is somewhat innovative in his thinking is always compared with Einstein. Einstein is known for all his great scientific discoveries like photoelectric effect, special and general theories of relativity, inventing a fridge, Brownian motion, and many more which are well described in many text books and research papers. Theories put forward in 1905 are being experimentally at present and giving new insights into vast horizons of science of nature. Albert Einstein was a great scientist but he was also a man with many other aspects of life other than science only.

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. He moved to the United States at a time when the Nazi regime put a $5,000 bounty of his head. He was even featured in a German magazine listing a roster of enemies of the state along with the phrase "Not yet hanged." However, there are many surprising facts related to this great scientist as a common man. This article will present some lesser known facts about Einstein to readers so that they can know more about this great scientist. Some of the lesser known facts about great scientist Alber Einstein are thus summarized as:

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