Albert Einstein: He really was an egghead

20 April 2016 - 02:29
By Martin Chilton, © The Telegraph

Albert Einstein was perhaps the world's greatest scientist. The Nobel Prize winner died in this week in 1955 at the age of 76, after laying the foundation of modern physics and changing mankind's views on space, time, mass and energy.But did you know he was obsessed by fried eggs? That's one of 10 quirky things about the man behind the famous equation E=mc² that we learn from the book Einstein at Home, which is published in English next month for the first time.

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