THERE IS a sort-of joke in physics that Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize was a makeup award, because he won it for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, a footnote compared to his mind-bending theory of relativity. Sir Roger Bannister, who died on March 3 at the age of 88, was the Einstein of sports.
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