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Petro: Definitely Albert Einstein
most advanced and impacted
our understanding of the universe.
He published more than 300 scientific papers,
along with about 150 non-scientific works.
But Einstein is best known as the father of modern physics
because of his Theory of Relativity.
The Theory of Relativity says basically
that mass and energy are aspects of the same thing.
Mass and energy are equivalent
and one can be converted to the other.
When it was first published,
Relativity overturned the 200-year-old theory
put forward by Sir Isaac Newton.
It changed perceptions of the day
by confirming that all motion is relative.
Time was no longer uniform and absolute.
No longer could physics be understood
as space by itself and time by itself.
Instead, an added dimension had to be taken into account.
As evidence of his genius, the Nobel Prize in Physics
was awarded to Albert Einstein in 1921.