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Was Einstein truly the “Person of the century”? Time Magazine thinks so, and if such a respected franchise such as Time claims you are person of the century then most likely there is some truth to this. Time is flattering to Einstein and goes on to beef up his character maybe more than it is deserved. This arose the question. Is the title person of the century dealt out based on merit, by which purely his actions are taken into account? Or is this title more of a combination of persona and life achievements. I believe the ladder. It makes statements like “He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliché in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed.” In reality these statements have nothing to do with Einstein himself. It is just a grosse description of Einstein intelligence and many cute jokes at his scruffy haired image. This also raised the question of the fact that what is this award being given; it is not physicist of the century, who at this time Einstein probably wouldn’t have won, but thoroughly the whole package of Einstein indeed leaves an image that is imprinted in our minds.