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XXX DRUDGE REPORT XXX SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1999 20:00:01 ET XXX
@@ TIME MAG NAMES EINSTEIN PERSON OF CENTURY @@
**World Exclusive**
TIME magazine will officially name Albert Einstein its "PERSON OF
THE CENTURY" on Sunday, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
MORE... With intense media roll-out, commencing at sunrise, TIME
will declare Einstein the most influential personality of the
20th Century:
"In a century that will be remembered foremost for its science
and technology -- in particular for our ability to understand and
then harness the forces of the atom and universe -- one person
clearly stands out as both the greatest mind and paramount icon
of our age: the kindly, absent-minded professor whose wild halo
of hair, piercing eyes, engaging humanity and extraordinary
brilliance made his face a symbol and his name a synonym for
genius, Albert Einstein."
MORE
"As the century's greatest thinker, as an immigrant who fled from
oppression to freedom, as a political idealist, he best embodies
what historians will regard as significant about the 20th
century. And as a philosopher with faith both in science and in
the beauty of God's handiwork, he personifies the legacy that has
been bequeathed to the next century.
"In a hundred years as we turn to another new century, nay, ten
times a hundred years when we turn to another new millenium, the
name that will prove most enduring from our own amazing era will
be that of Albert Einstein -- genius, political refugee,
humanitarian, locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the
universe."
"Einstein's impact," says Managing Editor Walter Isaacson. "was
not only on theoretical physics. His work also had practical
implications for the century's most important fields of
technology: television, nuclear weapons, lasers, space travel and
semiconductors."
Time's issue features an essay explaining Einstein's scientific
significance by Stephen W. Hawking, the world's greatest living
theoretical physicist. Hawking, who devised theories of the Big
Bang and black holes based on Einstein's work, is the author of
the classic book A Brief History of Time, which has sold close to
nine million copies. In his piece for Time he concludes: "The
world has changed far more in the past hundred years than in any
other century in history. The reason is not political or
economic, but technological -- technologies that flowed directly
from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better
represents those advances than Albert Einstein."
Einstein was born in Ulm , Germany in 1879. In 1905, he developed
the Special Theory of Relativity, which says that the speed of
light always appears constant no matter how fast an observer is
moving, but time will seem to slow down for a person approaching
the speed of light. His General Theory of Relativity, published
in 1916, described gravity as the warping of space and time, and
it overturned the laws of the universe that had held since the
age of Newton and Galileo. His famous equation relating mass to
energy, e=mc2, formed the theoretical foundation for atomic
reactions. He immigrated to the United States in 1933. Six years
later, he wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt which led to the
American development of the atomic bomb. He died in Princeton,
N.J., in 1955.
As runners-up, the magazine chose President Franklin Roosevelt
and Mahatma Gandhi.
Time's issue is based on the three major themes of the 20th
century: -- The revolution in science and technology, represented
by Einstein. -- The triumph of democracy and freedom over fascism
and communism, represented by Roosevelt.
-- The ability of individuals to resist authority in order to
secure civil rights and personal liberties, represented by
Gandhi. The issue includes a piece by President Bill Clinton on
living with Roosevelt's legacy. "Much of my own political
philosophy and approach to governance is rooted in Roosevelt¹s
principles of progress," he writes. "Rather than cling to old
abstractions or be driven by the iron laws of ideology, Roosevelt
crafted innovations to the circumstances in which he found
himself. He sought, above all, practical solutions that worked
for people."
In another piece, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes
Roosevelt's personality and historic importance. "Twice in
mid-centry, capitalism and democracy were in the gravest peril,
rescued by the the enormous efforts of countless people summoned
to their struggle by their peerless leader -- Franklin Delano
Roosevelt."
Former South African President Nelson Mandela writes a poignant
piece about how he, as well as others such as Martin Luther King
Jr., were affected by Gandhi's philosophy. "His strategy of
non-cooperation, his assertion that we can only be dominated if
we cooperate with our dominators and his non-violent resistance
inspired anti-colonial and anti-racist movements internationally
in our century," he says.
Time's issue also contains pieces on the most significant people
of the previous nine centuries of the millenium:
11th Century: William the Conqueror 12th century: Saladin
13th Century: Genghis Khan
14th Century: Giotto
15th Century: Johann Gutenberg
16th Century: Queen Elizabeth I
17th Century: Isaac Newton
18th Century: Thomas Jefferson
19th Century: Thomas Edison
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