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Einstein (US-CERT program)
WordNet
noun
(1) Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
"Mozart was a child genius"
"He's smart but he's no Einstein"
(2) Physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955)
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Proper noun
- Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th Century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
- 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, New York Times
- Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
- EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
- Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
- A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN
- No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said Einstein When His Daring Publishers Accepted it.
- 1977, James Taylor, “Secret O’ Life”, JT, Columbia Records
- Einstein said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space
- 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- Gaston: Picasso, Einstein, Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.
- 2000 January 22, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
- If Einstein, my dear / Were a toll booth cashier / I imagine he too would be [bored]
- 1919 November 10, “LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS”, New York Times
Noun
- an extremely clever person.
- Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an Einstein in the family.