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Person of the Century
Albert Einstein
December 31, 1999
Cover Story Excerpt:
He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche 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
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