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On 24-October-2006, I created a "2006 Overview" about Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-American physicist who developed the Special Theory and General Theory of Relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

Albert Einstein described himself as a "fanatical believer in the method logical simplicity" to seek simplified ways to combine various aspects into a unified view. He advocated development of the Unified Field Theory as such a concept. Einstein is considered a theoretician, as contrasted to experimentalists, in advocating the use of deduction in science, which had relatively limited use in the 20th Century, in fields such as computer software development that relied largely on inductive, trial-and-error methods to learn how to develop better software for users and applications, although some computer research documented deductive, cause-and-effect relationships in software performance and user frustration.

Einstein supported the concept of the United Nations as a confederation of nations, to prevent further nuclear wars, by a confederated negotiation among countries, rather than by a superpower victor dictating to other countries. Einstein also advocated socialism (in some forms) to handle the growing "planetary system of production and consumption" etc.

In April 1943, Albert Einstein made a public radio speech, in English (rather than his native German language), warning of the impending doom faced by Jewish people by NAZI Germany, more than 2 years prior to the end of World War II. After World War II, Einstein spoke against the American military plan to censor all further scientific work as becoming military-secret research, a position which prevailed in allowing public universities and businesses to perform open scientific research with open discussions. Describing scientific "FREEDOM" in his book "OUT OF MY LATER YEARS" Einstein explained, "scientific endeavor is a natural whole, the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate."

In 1999, Albert Einstein was selected as Time Magazine's "Man of the Millennium" for the 2nd millennium (years from 1001-2000).