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WORLD CAPITALS: Among the many sights to see in this capital is the home where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905

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Bern, Switzerland

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“K”9: Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than” this (he had a lot of both)

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knowledge

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THE ELEMENT: Discovered in 1952, it was named for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Century”

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einsteinium

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GENIUS: Albert’s first wife was Mileva Maric; in the divorce, he promised her the money from this award he hadn’t won yet

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the Nobel Peace Prize

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EINSTEIN: Little Albert learned to play this musical instrument and was pretty good at it

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the violin

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QUOTES $300: Albert Einstein said this woman scientist was “the only one whom fame has not corrupted”

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Marie Curie

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NUCLEAR PHYSICS $300: In nuclear fission mass from the neutron and the bombarded nucleus become energy as per this equation

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E=mc2

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SCIENCE and NATURE $800: Einstein’s famous equation states energy equals mass times this squared

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the speed of light

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“I” AYE $600: Albert Einstein once remarked that this ability to visualize “is more important than knowledge”

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imagination

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TIME’S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: Albert Einstein was the Person of the Century; in 1949 this British statesman was the man of the half-century

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Winston Churchill

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JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS : This city was home to our favorite “German-American physicist” for the last 20 years of his life

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Princeton

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STATE-LY HOMES: The home where Albert Einstein spent his last 20 years is in this state

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New Jersey

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RELATIVITY AT 100: This property, the middle letter in the familiar version of Einstein’s famous equation, grows with velocity

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mass

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