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Einstein: Einstein's Miracle Year (2:55)

The ambitious Albert Einstein challenges centuries of scientific thought with his new controversial idea, the General Theory of Relativity.

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  • Einstein: Einstein's Miracle Year
    Einstein: Einstein's Miracle Year

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    The ambitious Albert Einstein challenges centuries of scientific thought with his new controversial idea, the General Theory of Relativity.

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  • Beyond the Big Bang: Einstein World
    Beyond the Big Bang: Einstein World

    Beyond the Big Bang shows us how Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity explored the link between space and time.

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  • Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
    Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

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    Albert Einstein publishes four important scientific papers in 1905, referred to as his Miracle Year.

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  • Einstein: Childhood
    Einstein: Childhood

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    History takes a closer look at one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Find out what you have always wanted to know about Albert Einstein.

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  • Einstein and the Atom Bomb
    Einstein and the Atom Bomb

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    History takes a closer look at one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Find out what you have always wanted to know about Albert Einstein.

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  • Manhattan Project
    Manhattan Project

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    Explore the top-secret American project to build the world's first atomic bomb.

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  • Einstein: Einstein's Nobel Prize
    Einstein: Einstein's Nobel Prize

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    In 1922, Albert Einstein finally proves his General Theory of Relativity and that same year wins the Nobel Prize, but surprisingly not for his famous theory.

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  • Einstein: Regret
    Einstein: Regret

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    History takes a closer look at one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Find out what you have always wanted to know about Albert Einstein.

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  • Coroner's Report: Atomic Bomb
    Coroner's Report: Atomic Bomb

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    In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What happened to people on the fringes of the blasts?

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  • Einstein: Einsten in WWII
    Einstein: Einsten in WWII

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    History takes a closer look at one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen. Find out what you have always wanted to know about Albert Einstein.

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  • Einstein: Before Einstein was Famous
    Einstein: Before Einstein was Famous

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    Albert Einstein began his career as a patent clerk in Switzerland and was known for being a daydreamer.

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  • Beyond the Big Bang: Albert Einstein
    Beyond the Big Bang: Albert Einstein

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    In this History Channel video clip we take a look at the life of Albert Einstein. Learn all there is to know about the genius who re-defined gravity by learning new things about it. Like Isaac Newton, Einstein had a huge imagination.

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  • Einstein Letter Advocates Atomic Bomb
    Einstein Letter Advocates Atomic Bomb

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    In this "10 Days" video, learn how with the stroke of a pen, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicists in history, changed the world. On July 16, 1939, Einstein signed a letter urging President Franklin D. Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb.

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  • This Day In History: 03/14/01879 - Albert Einstein Born
    This Day In History: 03/14/01879 - Albert Einstein Born

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    On this day in 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany.

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  • Albert Einstein Calls for an End to Atomic Proliferation
    Albert Einstein Calls for an End to Atomic Proliferation

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    Though an outspoken pacifist since World War I, Albert Einstein had urged the United States to build nuclear weapons in the face of rising Nazism and the atrocities of World War II. However, after the bombs were dropped on Japan, Einstein once again took up his cause. In a speech, he warns the world of the dangers they now faced following the invention of the atomic bomb.

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