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Modern pop culture paints scientist Albert Einstein as a bushy-haired superthinker. His ideas, we’re told, were improbably far ahead of other scientists. He must have come from some other planet—maybe the same one that scientist Isaac Newton grew up on.

“Einstein was no space alien,” laughs Harvard University physicist and science historian Peter Galison. “He was a man of his time.” All of his 1905 papers unraveled problems being worked on, with mixed success, by other scientists. “If Einstein hadn’t been born, [those papers] would have been written in some form, eventually, by others,” Galison believes.

What’s remarkable about 1905 is that a single person authored all five papers, plus the original, irreverent way Einstein came to his conclusions.

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Which definition reflects the meaning of the word papers in this passage?

paper

noun \pā-pər \

a piece of paper
a paper container or wrapper
a formal piece of writing that is published
paper that is used to cover the walls of a room

Answer 1

Born on March 14 in 1879, Einstein grew up in Munich, Germany. The family later moved to Italy. Einstein then moved to Switzerland to continue his formal schooling. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901 (the same year he earned his diploma), and he earned his doctorate in 1905.

In that 1905 paper, Einstein proposed his famous equation: E = MC2. That equation laid out a new understanding of the matter/energy relationship where the energy of a body is equal to the mass of that body multiplied by the speed of light squared.

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In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his study of the photoelectric effect. During the outbreak of the Second World War, Einstein immigrated to the United States after being targeted by Hitler's administration. His work also became crucial in the development of the atomic bomb later during the war.

Einstein was outspoken, eloquent, and had passions reaching far beyond the confines of the scientific community. He played the violin. He was well-versed in both classic and popular literature of the time. This could be partially why Einstein's persona and legacy seem so applicable to a variety of situations, movements, and movies.

His life has been adapted a number of times on-screen, and his iconic likeness has been recreated throughout art. Here are just a few of Einstein's most popular pop-ups in culture:

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