In the single year of 1905 he published papers on special relativity, on the photoelectric effect and on Brownian motion — each of the three rewrote its own corner of physics. General relativity (1915) explained gravity as the curvature of space-time and predicted that starlight grazing the Sun...
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A barrister who spent twenty years in South Africa and found there the instrument of his life — satyagraha, holding firmly to truth: refusing to obey an unjust law, accepting the punishment for it, and never returning the blow. Back in India he turned the struggle for independence from the business
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Daughter of the first prime minister of independent India, she grew up in a house where politics was discussed at breakfast and where her father was regularly taken off to prison. She took charge of the government in 1966 and stayed in power, with one interruption, until 1984. Under her the country
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She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson and spent her childhood in orphanages and foster homes: her mother was gravely ill, and no father was named on the papers. Modelling work during the war years took her into film, and within ten years she went from walk-on parts to leading roles — “Gentlemen Prefer
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Given up for adoption at birth, he grew up in California, left college after half a year, travelled to India in search of meaning, and in 1976 built the first Apple computer in his parents' garage with Steve Wozniak. Eight years later came the Macintosh — a machine driven by a mouse rather than a...
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