Einstein

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Proposed by Albert Einstein in 1915, general relativity describes gravity as the bending of spacetime by mass, similar to how a heavy object distorts a stretched surface.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

In 1931, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein was spending his first winter at Caltech, and he wrote to a friend, “Here in Pasadena, it is like Paradise. Always sunshine and clear air …”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

It's hard to call, so this was one of the games I mentioned earlier where I was thinking, 'What would Einstein say?'.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Glass' groundbreaking moment came in 1976 when he premiered "Einstein on the Beach" -- a work that tore apart basic expectations of opera and marked a coming of age for the avant-garde.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

What she and her husband couldn’t know–what no one could know until Einstein explained things the following decade–was that the rocks were converting mass into energy in an exceedingly efficient way.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson