19 Things You Might Not Have Known About Albert Einstein

(via Mental Floss) In 1999, Albert Einstein was awarded Time‘s Person of the Century. The father of special and general relativity, Einstein’s theories introduced concepts that would help make dozens of modern technologies possible. “I have no special talents,” Einstein was quoted saying. “I am only passionately curious.” Here are some facts about the physicist who gave us crazy hair and E=MC^2.