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Einstein
It's  hard to think of him as anything other than a brilliant and quirky genius. However, the man with the world's most famous brain faced personal struggles just like everyone else. He grew up poor, wasn't the best of students, and lived through an adulthood with a series of marriages and love affairs gone sour. Despite his trials and tribulations, Einstein never frittered away his powers of observation or his passion for unraveling nature's ultimate secrets. The most famous equation ever, E=Mc˛, and his breakthroughs on gravity, the speed of light, time, and special relativity all came in his twenties while he clerked at a rather boring patent office in Bern, Switzerland. Later in life, as Einstein realized the effect his atomic research had on the outcome of WWII, his guilt led him to champion nuclear disarmament the rest of his years. Einstein was not always at ease with his celebrity, yet he used it to better humanity and show how intelligence isn't just about an IQ, but choosing to live a productive life with no excuses. (in Science History) |
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