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Albert Einstein

Photo Credit: Photograph by Oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J. Copyrighted 1947. Reproduced by Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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1879-1955
Being labeled a "slow-learner" in grade school didn't stop Einstein from making some of the greatest-ever achievements in science. He proposed the general theory of relativity, helped develop quantum theory, and received a Nobel Prize in physics for his description of the photoelectric effect.
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