Einstein: the basics

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  • 1 Down 7 letters · starts with Q

    Small packet in which energy comes, in the physics of the very small

    Show answer QUANTUM
  • 2 Across 5 letters · starts with A

    Brownian motion is key evidence that they are real

    Show answer ATOMS
  • 3 Across 5 letters · starts with L

    Its speed is the same for every observer

    Show answer LIGHT
  • 4 Across 7 letters · starts with C

    What his father showed him as a child, filling him with wonder

    Show answer COMPASS
  • 5 Down 9 letters · starts with P

    Town of the Institute for Advanced Study, his workplace until death

    Show answer PRINCETON
  • 6 Down 9 letters · starts with S

    Four-dimensional fabric that mass and energy curve

    Show answer SPACETIME
  • 7 Down 9 letters · starts with E

    Charged particles that light knocks out of a metal, as Einstein explained

    Show answer ELECTRONS
  • 8 Down 6 letters · starts with E

    E = mc²: mass is a form of it

    Show answer ENERGY
  • 9 Across 6 letters · starts with H

    Astronomer whose 1929 observations showed the universe is expanding

    Show answer HUBBLE
  • 10 Down 4 letters · starts with B

    Swiss city of the patent office where Einstein worked in 1905

    Show answer BERN
  • 11 Across 6 letters · starts with Z

    City of the Polytechnic where Einstein studied

    Show answer ZURICH
  • 12 Across 10 letters · starts with R

    His theories of 1905 (special) and 1915 (general)

    Show answer RELATIVITY
  • 13 Across 6 letters · starts with P

    A single particle of light, with energy proportional to its frequency

    Show answer PHOTON
  • 14 Across 8 letters · starts with E

    Physicist who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect

    Show answer EINSTEIN