Word: alberts
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Hubble went on to trump even that achievement by showing that this galaxy-studded cosmos is expanding--inflating majestically like an unimaginably gigantic balloon--a finding that prompted Albert Einstein to acknowledge and retract what he called "the greatest blunder of my life." Hubble did nothing less, in short, than invent the idea of the universe and then provide the first evidence for the Big Bang theory, which describes the birth and evolution of the universe. He discovered the cosmos, and in doing so founded the science of cosmology...
Thus a monument to the conquest of polio faithful to the facts would consist of not one man in a white lab coat but two of them glaring at each other. Both Drs. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin could and did make convincing cases for themselves and pretty good ones against each other too. But since the public usually prefers one hero to two, and since Salk did get there first, he got the monument...
...Albert Schweitzer, a missionary, opens a hospital in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), for the treatment of leprosy and sleeping sickness
...Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity...
...Hungarian-born biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi isolates vitamin...