Albert Einstein
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At a dinner at the Savoy Hotel, London, England, on 27 October 1930, the author George Bernard Shaw paid tribute to Professor Albert Einstein in an after-dinner speech.*
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* The event is described in a book by Abraham Pais, Einstein Lived Here (page 181), published by Clarendon Press in 1994.
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