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| Albert
Einstein: Person of the Century |
| He was the iconic
20th century scientist, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a
comic cliché in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie
Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy haired visage was as
familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in
salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound —
the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it,
that the universe was not as it seemed. Read
the full story in Time Magazine |
Enrico
Fermi and William
Shockley also made the list.
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