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NEWS ABOUT: Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein stories: 8 news summaries

 Highest Earning Dead Celebs 

Michael Jackson, predictably, made the list—but not at No. 1

Oct 28, 09 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The stars on Forbes ' annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities number, appropriately, 13. To make the list, a "deleb" must have brought in at least $6 million in the past year. This year's list is notably missing former mainstays Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and Steve McQueen,... More »

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entertainment • Dr. Seuss • Andy Warhol • John Lennon • Jimi Hendrix • celebrity • Elvis Presley • Albert Einstein • Michael Jackson • Yves Saint Laurent • J. R. R. Tolkien • Rodgers and Hammerstein • Charles Schulz • Michael Crichton • Aaron Spelling • celebrity death

 Iconic Einstein Pic Fetches $74K

Iconic image beats the record for a photo of the physicist

Jun 21, 09 4:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - An iconic image of a tongue-wagging Albert Einstein went for $74K at a New Hampshire auction, reports WCVB Boston. The photo is from a 1951 birthday celebration for the physicist at Princeton University. While Einstein may look playful in the picture, he intended the irreverent image as a statement against... More »

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auction • photograph • Albert Einstein

Einstein Called Faith 'Childish Superstition'

1954 letter, headed for auction, sheds new light on scientist's view

May 13, 08 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - A relatively unknown letter by Albert Einstein, offered at auction Thursday in London, offers new details on the scientist's tangled relationship with religion, the Guardian reports. While believers often consider Einstein a scientist who maintained his religious faith, the 1954 letter calls the Bible "primitive legends," and "... More »

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science • religion • Judaism • auction • Albert Einstein

Laws of Physics
May Need an Overhaul

Scientists detect gravity-defying behavior of spacecrafts

Mar 14, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - The laws of physics just might be broken. Scientists have detected gravity-defying behavior from spacecrafts flung around the Earth, the Economist reports. Five different spacecrafts picked up speed at a pace deviating,ever so slightly, from the laws created by Newton and Einstein. After laborious calculations, astronomers have created... More »

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astronomy • science • Galileo • gravity • Albert Einstein • spacecraft • Jet Propulsion Laboratory • John Anderson

HS Kids Take Color-Blind
View of History

Women, blacks dominate students' list of famous Americans

Feb 4, 08 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Martin Luther King Jr. is the most famous American in history, according to 2,000 high school students asked to name the top 10, reports USA Today. In a dramatic break from the "dead white male" paradigm, African Americans, women, and Arfican-American women dominated the list, with Rosa... More »

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list • Oprah Winfrey • Marilyn Monroe • Albert Einstein • Martin Luther King Jr. • Benjamin Franklin • famous Americans • Rosa Parks • Harriet Tubman • Susan B Anthony • Amelia Earhart • Thomas Edison

7 Celebs Who Married Cousins

Bach, Rudy, Einstein all kept it in the family

Dec 11, 07 5:54 PM CST
(Newser) - These seven celebrities looked no further than their own family tree for a bride, Mental Floss reports—they married their cousins:
  1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Had 7 of his 20 children with Maria.
  2. Edgar Allen Poe: Fell for Virginia when she was 7; they wed when she was 13.
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Rudy Giuliani • marriage • Charles Darwin • Albert Einstein • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Jerry Lee Lewis • cousins • Johann Sebastian Bach • Edgar Allen Poe • Virginia Poe • Regina Peruggi • Emma Darwin • Eleanor Roosevelt

Walter Mosley's Top Literary Picks

Devil in a Blue Dress author selects five most influential books

Nov 6, 07 4:10 PM CST
(Newser) - Walter Mosley has won accolades from readers and critics alike for his Easy Rawlins detective series, and the novelist has a philosophical side, too. Newsweek presents his list of important works that "most greatly impacted the intelligence, potential and humanity of the people of the world."
  1. The
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Marxism • literature • list • Charles Darwin • Albert Einstein • Walter Mosley • Karl Marx • Sigmund Freud

Scientists Breach Einstein's Theory

Photons traveled faster than light, say Germans

Aug 16, 07 11:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two German physicists claim to have sent microwave photons zooming past the speed of light , a feat Albert Einstein said would require an infinite—and impossible—amount of energy, reports the Daily Telegraph. "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of,... More »

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science • physics • speed of light • prisms • microwave photons • quantum tunnelling • Albert Einstein • German

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