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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Bavaria, on 14 March 1879. The outstanding relevance of Einstein’s work for modern science is recognized in the words of the Russian physicist Igor E. Tamm.
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Chaichian, M., Perez Rojas, H., Tureanu, A. (2021). Special Theory of Relativity. In: Basic Concepts in Physics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62313-8_5
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