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ce time and matter helpedunravel the secrets of the atom and of the universe, was chosen as "Personof the Century" by Time magazine on Sunday. A man whose very name is synonymous with scientific genius,Einstein has come to represent more than any other person the flowering of 20thcentury scientific thought that set the stage for the age of technology. "The world has changed far more in the past 100 years thanin any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic, buttechnological-technoiogies that flowed directly from advances in basic science." wrote theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking in a Time essay explainingEinstein's significance. 46__________ Time chose as runner-up President Franklin Roosevelt to representthe triumph of freedom and democracy over fascism, and Mahatma Gandhi as anicon for a century when civil and human rights became crucial factors in globalpolitics. "What we saw Franklin Roosevelt embodying the great themeof freedom's fight against totalitari anism, Gandhi personifying the greattheme of individuals struggling for their rights, and Einstein being both agreat genius and a great symbol of a scientific revolution that brought with itamazing technological advances that helped expand the growth of freedom. "said Time Magazine Editor Walter Isaacson. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879. 47__________He wasslow to learn to speak and did not do well in elementary school. He could notstomach organized learning and loathed taking exams. In 1905, however, he was to publish a theory which stands asone of the most intricate examples of human imagination in history. 48__________Everything else -mass, weight,space, even time itself is a variable. And he offered the world his now-famousequation: energy equals mass times the speed of light squared——E=mc2.49 __________There was less faith in absolutes, not only of time and space butalso of truth and morality. Einstein's famous equation was also the seed that led to the developmentof atomic energy and weapons. In1939, six years after he fled European fascismand settled at Princeton University, Einstein, an avowed pacifist, signed aletter to President Roosevelt urging the United States to develop an atomicbomb before Nazi Germany did. 50__________.Einstein did not work on the project. Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in1955. A．"Indirectly, relativity paved the way for a newrelativism in morality, art and politics. "Isaacson wrote in an essayexplaining Time's choices. B．How he thought of the relativity theory influenced thegeneral public's view about Albert Einstein. C．"Clearly, no scientist better represents those advancesthan Albert Einstein." D．Roosevelt heeded the advice and formed the "ManhattanProject" that secretly developed the first atomic weapon. E．In his early years, Einstein did not show the promise ofwhat he was to become. F．In his "Special Theory of Relativity", Einsteindescribed how the only constant in the universe is the speed of light. {TS} 46__________