The Best TIME Covers
On TIME's 85th anniversary, check out the most lasting images ever to appear inside the red border and vote for the best cover in TIME history.
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
Latest Lists
Most Popular »
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's
- Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion
- Black Friday
- Germany's Doubts About Afghanistan Grow After Revelations About Air Strike
- Will Dubai's Financial Problems Spread Around the Globe?
- Pie
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- How to Get Smarter, One Breath at a Time
- Is Gene Therapy Finally Ready for Prime Time?
- The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
- Workers of the World vs. China Inc.
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's
- Dearborn's Muslims Fear a Fort Hood Backlash
- Satyam Computer Fraud Grows to $2.5 Billion
RSS