Albert Einstein: The Mind That Bent Space and Time

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  "title": "Albert Einstein: The Mind That Bent Space and Time",
  "subtitle": "A portfolio ad for a scientist: a hook, the name, the miracle year in cards, the most famous equation, a life in photographs, a journey from Ulm to Princeton, his ideas in orbit and a famous line.",
  "topic": "A portfolio ad for Albert Einstein (1879 to 1955), the physicist behind special and general relativity, E equals m c squared and the photoelectric effect",
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          "say": "He was a patent clerk."
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          "text": "No lab. No ==professorship==.",
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      "heading": "1905: the **miracle year**",
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          "title": "The photoelectric effect",
          "text": "Light arrives in packets of energy, called quanta.",
          "foot": "Annalen der Physik",
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          "meta": "May 1905",
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          "meta": "June 1905",
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          "title": "Bern, 1904",
          "text": "A patent clerk with big questions.",
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          "say": "Bern, nineteen oh four. A patent clerk."
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          "picture": "/examples/ads-albert-einstein/eclipse.webp",
          "title": "1919",
          "text": "Starlight bends, just as he predicted.",
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          "tone": "sky",
          "say": "Nineteen nineteen. An eclipse proves him right."
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          "title": "1921",
          "text": "The Nobel Prize in Physics.",
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          "say": "Nineteen twenty-one. The Nobel Prize."
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          "title": "Princeton, 1947",
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      "text": "His ideas, ==everywhere==",
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          "icon": "🔦",
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          "icon": "☀️",
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          "icon": "📷",
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          "icon": "🕳️",
          "label": "Black holes"
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          "icon": "🌊",
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      "quote": "Imagination is more important than knowledge.",
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      "say": "In his words: imagination is more important than knowledge."
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      "headline": "Stay **curious**",
      "text": "Keep asking why.",
      "button": "Explore his story",
      "link": "nobelprize.org",
      "badges": [
        "1879 – 1955",
        "Nobel Prize, 1921"
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