Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent Jewish family in ...

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Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein — born in Southern Germany on this day in 1879 — has become a universal icon of intelligence and scientific discovery over the nearly 150 years since his birth.