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On this day in 1955, German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died after a blood vessel burst near his heart. Einstein developed the special and general theories of relativity. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Read more about how Einstein’s theory of general relativity baffled the press and the public.

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