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Einstein_Myths_050418.appDeck = "Whenever a personality as strong as Albert Einstein is involved, it's easy for misunderstandings to take root. Here are five key myths about Einstein and his work:";
Einstein_Myths_050418.appFooter = "SOURCE: Michel Janssen; MSNBC.com research";
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Einstein_Myths_050418[i-1].body = "Einstein is called the father of the atomic bomb, and that relation is demonstrated in one. But the bomb really grew out of advances in nuclear physics in the 1930s, led by Ernest Rutherford and Enrico Fermi. \"You can add 20 other names that were more important for the development of the atomic bomb than Einstein ever was,\" says Michel Janssen, a science historian who worked on Einstein’s collected papers.";

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Einstein_Myths_050418[i-1].body = "A widely accepted myth, based on numerous accurate quotations, is that Einstein believed in God. But he made it clear in many of his letters that he did not, once going so far as to call the idea \"a lie which is being systematically repeated.\" God, he said, was his convenient metaphor for the wondrous structure of the universe as expressed in scientific discoveries.";

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Einstein_Myths_050418[i-1].body = "The popular conception of Einstein is the wild-haired older man in Princeton. But with only a couple of exceptions, all of his greatest work took place from 1905 to 1920. \"Special relativity, general relativity, his key contributions to quantum mechanics, the light-quantum hypothesis, the quantum theory of radiation — it's all in those 15 years between 1905 and 1920,\" Janssen says.";

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Einstein_Myths_050418[i-1].body = "Numerous feminist scholars teach that Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric, contributed significantly to or even solely produced the special theory of relativity. \"For this particular proposal there's not a shred of evidence,\" Janssen says.";

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Einstein_Myths_050418[i-1].body = "Parent like the idea that Einstein did not learn to speak until the age of 3 and that their Johnny could \"yet become an Einstein.\" But Einstein \"applies himself if a subject holds an interest for him,\" Janssen says. \"Very early on you see that the guy is unbelievably good at math and physics and unbelievably bad at languages or history or things like rote memorization.\"";

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