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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc^2. Einstein 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." His contributions to physics are many and he sought in vain, until the end of his life, to unify the forces of gravity and electromagnetism in a theory of everything.

Works by Albert Einstein include more than fifty scientific papers and non-scientific books. In 1999 Einstein was named Time magazine's "Person of the Century", and a poll of prominent physicists named him the greatest physicist of all time. In popular culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.

[Altered from the Albert Einstein article on Wikipedia]