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From Bill Bryson’s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Short History of Nearly Everything<\/strong><\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, a para summarizing Einstein’s three papers – that made the scientific world sit up and say, ” why didn’t i think of that”<\/p>\n

The first won its author a Nobel Prize and explained the nature of light (and also helped to make television possible, among other things). The second provided proof that atoms do indeed exist\u00e2\u20ac\u201da fact that had, surprisingly, been in some dispute. The third merely changed the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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