14 March 2017

History for the day: 1879: Albert Einstein born

1879: Albert Einstein born

This day in History
Mar
14
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1879
Albert Einstein born
On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man's view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately... read more »
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