“ Lights All Askew in the Heavens,” trumpeted the main headline. “ Revolution in Science,” blared the Times of London “Newtonian Ideas Overthrown.” A few days later, the New York Times weighed in with a six-tiered headline-rare indeed for a science story. Newspapers enthusiastically picked up the story. On November 6, scientists at a joint meeting of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Astronomical Society announced that measurements taken during a total solar eclipse earlier that year supported Einstein’s bold new theory of gravity, known as general relativity. November 1919 was the month that made Einstein into “Einstein,” the beginning of the former patent clerk’s transformation into an international celebrity. By year’s end, however, he was a household name around the globe. When the year 1919 began, Albert Einstein was virtually unknown beyond the world of professional physicists.
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