Einstein Named Person of the Century爱因斯坦被称作“世纪之人”

Einstein Named "Person of the Century"
1.Albert Einstein, whose theories on space time and matter helped unravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as "Person of the Century" by Time magazine on Sunday.
2.A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius，Einstein has come to represent more than any other person the flowering of the 20th century scientific thought that set the stage for the age of technology.
3."The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic，but technological 一technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. "wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explaining Einstein's significance. (1)
C "Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein."
4.Time chose as runner-up President Franklin Roosevelt1 to represent the triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism, and Mahatma Gandhi2 as an icon for a century when civil and human rights became crucial factors in global politics.
5."What we saw was Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great theme of freedom's fight against totalitarianism, Gandhi personifying the great theme of individuals struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both a great genius and a great symbol of a scientific revolution that brought with it amazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom. "said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson.
6.Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. (2) E In his early years, Einstein did not show the promise of what he was to become. He was slow to learn to speak and did not do well in elementary school. He could not stomach organized learning and loathed taking exams3 ?
7.In 1905, however, he was to publish a theory which stands as one of the most intricate examples of human imagination in history. (3) F In his "Special Theory of Relativity"，Einstein described how the only constant in the universe is the speed of light. Everything else —mass，weight, space, even time itself —is a variable. And he offered the world his now-famous equation ： energy equals mass times the speed of light squared — E = mc2.
8.(4) A "Indirectly, relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, art and politics."Isaacson wrote in an essay explaining Time's choices. "There was less faith in absolutes, not only of time and space but also of truth and morality."
9.Einstein's famous equation was also the seed that led to the development of atomic energy and weapons. In 1939, six years after he fled European fascism and settled at Princeton University, Einstein，an avowed pacifist4，signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the United States to develop an atomic bomb before Nazi Germany did. (5)D Roosevelt heeded the advice and formed the "Manhattan Project" that secretly developed the first atomic weapon. Einstein did not work on the project.
10.Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955.
爱因斯坦被称作“世纪之人”
1.艾尔伯特?爱因斯坦的有关空间时间和物质的理论帮助揭开T原子和宇宙的秘密，星期天他被《时代》杂志选为“世纪之人”。

2.爱因斯坦的名字成了科学天才的同义词，他比任何其他人都更能代表为科技时代奠定基础的繁荣的20世纪科学思想。

3.理论物理学家史蒂芬?霍金在《时代》上的一篇文章中写道：“世界在近100年里发生的改变比历史上任何一个世纪的改变都要大得多。

原因不是政治的或经济的，而是科技的——基础科学的发展直接引发的科技。

很显然，没有哪个科学家比艾尔伯特?爱因斯坦更能代表这些进步。

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4.与此同时，富兰克林?罗斯福总统代表了自由民主战胜了法西斯，穆哈默德甘地在民族主权和****成为全球政治的关键因素时成为世纪偶像。

5.《时代》杂志编辑华特?伊萨克森说：“我们看到的是代表自由反抗独裁的巨大胜利的富兰克林罗斯福，个人为人民权利斗争的巨大胜利的化身——甘地，伟大的天才和科学革命的标志——爱因斯坦，这次科学革命带来了惊人的有助于扩大自由的科技发展。

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6.爱因斯坦于1879年出生在德国的乌尔姆。

爱因斯坦在小时候并未显示日后会成为大科学家的任何天赋。

他学说话学得很晚，在小学里也并不出色。

他无法忍受一切都安排得
死死的教学，讨厌考试o
7.然而1905年他发表了历史上人类所能想象的最复杂的理论之一。

在他的“特殊相对论”中，爱因斯坦描述了为什么宇宙中唯一不变的是光速。

任何其他事物——质量、重量、空间甚至时间本身——都是可变量。

他当时向世界提出了现在已经非常著名的方程：能量等于质量乘以光速的平方——E = mc2。

8.伊萨克森在《时代》上的一篇文章中写道：“相对论间接地为道德、艺术和政治领域中新的相对主义的出现铺平了道路。

人们越来越不相信绝对，不仅对时间而言，也包括真理和道德o，’
9.爱因斯坦的等式也是原子能和核武器发展的基础。

1939年，在逃离欧洲法西斯的迫害并定居在普林斯顿大学后的第六年，公开承认的和平主义者——爱因斯坦——在一封给罗斯福总统的敦促美国抢在纳粹德国之前开发原子弹的信上签了名。

罗斯福对这项建议十分关注，遂制订了秘密制造第一颗原子弹的“曼哈顿计划”。

爱因斯坦没有参与这个项目。

10.爱因斯坦于1955年死于新泽西的普林斯顿。