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Einstein
Einstein has never been a dull character by anyone’s standards. In fact, Einstein was even declared TIME Magazine’s Person of the Century. Besides his public image, there was a world of science and morality that most people either never saw or just could not understand.

TIME Magazine’s biography on Einstein reveals a conflicted man, whose personal feelings were as difficult to understand as his intense scientific leaps and discoveries. A theory such as Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity is a perfect example of his scientific expertise. In TIME it states, “Arthur Eddington's celebrated wisecrack (asked if it was true that only three people understood relativity, the witty British astrophysicist paused, then said, "I am trying to think who the third person is")”. Einstein was a brilliant man, but was it Einstein or possibly another scientist to whom we owe the credit of the origins of Quantum theory?

According to David Cassidy’s article, Einstein should in fact, be given credit for the origins of quantum theory. Max Planck “was able to give a single mathematical formula for the observed distribution of the energy among the emitted wavelengths.” Einstein would later elaborate, and prove the reason “why” Planck’s equation was right and thus deserves some of the credit.

Einstein’s brilliance cannot be ignored. Like Darwin, he was able to take observations and derive from them complicated understandings that many could never dream of. I find that that quality about him is incredible. For anybody to do that is incredible.