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This prize-winning physicist’s groundbreaking theories about the Universe transformed modern thinking.
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Growing genius Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, Albert Einstein was slow to speak and talked in whispers. After finishing school, he started an office job in Switzerland and filled his spare time by WRITING scientific theories about space, time, and motion.
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German theoretical physicist Max Planck was the first to put forward quantum theory, which explained atomic and subatomic processes. This won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
