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Albert Einstein Head cleaned
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Albert Einstein, the 16-year-old prodigy
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Gottfried Wolfsgruber (1859 -)
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Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer - restoration
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爱因斯坦

愛因斯坦
Àiyīnsītǎn
proper noun #8,563

Meanings

  1. 1 Albert Einstein (physicist)

About Albert Einstein

1879–1955 · 科学家 scientist

German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, news he received while passing through Shanghai in 1922. In Chinese his name is shorthand for a genius.

Examples

HSK 7-9
爱因斯坦的相对论彻底改变了我们对宇宙的理解。
Àiyīnsītǎn de xiāngduìlùn chèdǐ gǎibiàn le wǒmen duì yǔzhòu de lǐjiě.
Einstein's theory of relativity completely changed our understanding of the universe.

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His Nobel Prize was not for 相对论 'the theory of relativity', which was still disputed, but for his work on the 光电效应 'photoelectric effect'. The word 相对论 is simply 相对 'relative' plus 论 'theory'.

Stroke Order

爱 ài
因 yīn
斯 sī
坦 tǎn