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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Henry Kissinger b) Martha Stewart c) Albert Einstein d) Abbie Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Mohandas Gandhi b) Albert Einstein c) Henry Ford d) Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological--technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Relativity | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...generally regarded as a sort of petrified object, rendered deaf and blind by the years," Albert Einstein confided near the end of his life. He was, alas, correct. During the last three decades of his remarkable career, Einstein had become obsessed by the dream of producing a unified field theory, a series of equations that would establish an underlying link between the seemingly unrelated forces of gravity and electromagnetism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Symphony | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Standing in an unstable universe where distances contract and clocks slow down, and time and space are plastic, Albert Einstein cast a wistful backward glance at Isaac Newton. "Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science!" he wrote. "Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17th Century: Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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