German-born physicist Albert Einstein was so influential, his very name has become synonymous with genius.

5 Ways Albert Einstein Changed the World

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G erman-born physicist Albert Einstein was so influential, his very name has become synonymous with genius. While working as a patent clerk in 1905 at the age of 26, Einstein submitted four papers to the German journal Annalen der Physik that changed humanity's perception of time, gravity, and light. Today, historians mark the year as Einstein's annus mirabilis, or "miracle year."

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