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1879–1955
Albert Einstein
Physicist best known for the theory of relativity and E = mc²; he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Element
99EsEinsteinium
1952
Einsteinium was found in the debris of the first hydrogen bomb test, in the Pacific in November 1952. Scientists at Berkeley, Argonne and Los Alamos identified about 200 atoms of it; the discovery was kept secret until 1955, and the element was named after Albert Einstein.
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