TIME MAGAZINE'S Person of the Century year 1999

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Albert Einstein is TIME MAGAZINE'S Person of the Century of the Dec. 31 1999 issue.
Runners-up were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi.

According to TIME :"He was the embodiment of pure intellect, the bumbling professor with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound — the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed."

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