Einstein Week
On his 143rd birthday, Inverse celebrates the world’s most iconic physicist — and interrogates the myth of his genius.
On his 143rd birthday, Inverse celebrates the world’s most iconic physicist — and interrogates the myth of his genius.
While the Red Scare was making America panic, the FBI had their eyes on the famed physicist.
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For all his genius, Einstein had a tendency to be stuck in his ways.
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