Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire on 14 March 1879. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein . The Einsteins were non-observant Jews. Albert attended a Catholic elementary school from the age of five. Later, at the age of eight, Einstein was transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium where he received advanced primary and secondary school education until he left Germany seven years later. Although it has been thought that Einstein had early speech difficulties, this is disputed by the Albert Einstein Archives, and he excelled at the first school that he attended. Early Life- Albert at the age of 3.
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire on 14 March 1879. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein .The Einsteins were non-observant Jews. Albert attended a Catholic elementary school from the age of five. Later, at the age of eight, Einstein was transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium where he received advanced primary and secondary school education until he left Germany seven years later. Although it has been thought that Einstein had early speech difficulties, this is disputed by the Albert Einstein Archives, and he excelled at the first school that he attended.
Early Life-
Albert at the age of 3.
Family LifeIn early 1902, Einstein and Mileva Marić had a daughter they named Lieserl, who was born in Novi Sad. Her fate is uncertain after 1903.As she went missing at this time and is not found until this time. We don’t know if she is alive or dead. In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son,Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. In 1914, Einstein moved to Berlin, while his wife remained in Zurich with their sons. Marić and Einstein divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years.Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was his first cousin maternally and his second cousin paternally. In 1933, they settled permanently in the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems and died in December 1936.At this point in time, Albert focused his full time in deep study of physics, with no distraction.
Mileva Maric and Albert.
Elsa Lowenthal and Albert.
Political and Religious ViewsAlbert Einstein's political views emerged publicly in the middle of the 20th century due to his fame and reputation for genius. Einstein offered to and was called on to give judgments and opinions on matters often unrelated to theoretical physics or mathematics Einstein's views about religious belief have been collected from interviews and original writings. These views covered Judaism, theological determinism, agnosticism, and humanism. He also wrote much about ethical culture, opting for Spinoza's god over belief in a personal god.
Public craze for Einstein-In the period before World War II, Einstein was so well known in America that he would be stopped on the street by people wanting him to explain "that theory". He finally figured out a way to handle the incessant inquiries. He told his inquirers "Pardon me, sorry! Always I am mistaken for Professor Einstein."Einstein has been the subject of or inspiration for many novels, films, plays, and works of music He is a favourite model for depictions of mad scientists and absent-minded professors; his expressive face and distinctive hairstyle have been widely copied and exaggerated. Time magazine's Frederic Golden wrote that Einstein was "a cartoonist's dream come true".
The Most Famous Man Alive Dies!
Albert Einstein, passed away in 1955, at the age of 76,in Princeton, New Jersey,USA. Succumbing to an aortic aneurysm.Dr.Thomas Harvey a doctor at the hospital albert dies, wanted to know if his brain was different from a common man’s brain. So she took the brain and examined it.She found out that the neuron-to-glial cell ratio was higher in albert’s brain than in a normal human being’s.After her studies, in 1997,the brain was given to albert’s granddaughter who refused to accept it, so the brain was returned back to the hospital, 40 years after albert died.
Achievements• Einstein showed that absolute time had to replaced by a new absolute: the speed of
light. Einstein went against the grain and totally dismissed the "Old Physics." He envisioned a world where space and time are relative and the speed of light is absolute (at the time, it was believed that space and time were absolute and the speed of light was relative).
• He asserted the equivalence of mass and energy, which would lead to the famous formula E=mc2
• Einstein challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could also be regarded as a collection of particles. This helped to open the door to a whole new world--that of quantum physics.
• he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.• His paper concerning the Brownian motion of particles. With profound insight,
Einstein blended ideas from kinetic theory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an equation for the mean free path of such particles as a function of the time.
• In 1910, Einstein answered a basic question: 'Why is the sky blue?' His paper on the phenomenon called critical opalescence solved the problem by examining the cumulative effect of the scattering of light by individual molecules in the atmosphere.
Achievements continued…• Einstein later published a paper in 1915 called "General Relativity." General Relativity
took over when Special Relativity started to fail. Controversy started to rise when Einstein released his second paper called "General Relativity.“
• In 1917, Einstein published a paper which uses general relativity to model the behavior of an entire universe. General relativity has spawned some of the weirdest, and most important results in modern astronomy.
• In 1924, Einstein received a short paper from a young Indian physicist named Satyendra Nath Bose, describing light as a gas of photons, and asking for Einstein's assistance in publication. Einstein realised that the same statistics could be applied to atoms, and published an article in German (then the lingua franca of physics) which described Bose's model and explained its implications. Bose Einstein statistics now describes any assembly of these indistinguishable particles known as bosons.
• Einstein and de Sitter in 1932 proposed a simple solution of the field equations of general relativity for an expanding universe. They argued that there might be large amounts of matter which does not emit light and has not been detected. This matter, now called 'dark matter', has since been shown to exist by observing is gravitational effects.
AWARDS AND HONORS
1919 University of Rostock Honorary doctorate1921 Princeton University Honorary doctorate
1922 Nobel Foundation, Stockholm Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1921
1923 University of Madrid Honorary doctorate1923 Order "Pour le mérite" Admission to the order1925 Royal Society of London Copley Medal1926 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal1929 German Physical Society Max-Planck-Medal
1930 ETH (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule), Zurich Honorary doctorate
1931 Oxford University Honorary doctorate1935 Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin Medal1935 Harvard University Honorary doctorate
Anecdotes
After having propounded his famous theory, Albert Einstein would tour the various Universities in the United States, delivering lectures wherever he went. He was always accompanied by his faithful chauffer, Harry, who would attend each of these lectures while seated in the back row! One fine day, after Einstein had finished a lecture and was coming out of the auditorium into his vehicle, Harry addresses him and says, "Professor Einstein, I've heard your lecture on Relativity so many times, that if I were ever given the opportunity, I would be able to deliver it to perfection myself!"
"Very well," replied Einstein, "I'm going to Dartmouth next week. They don't know me there. You can deliver the lecture as Einstein, and I'll take your place as Harry!"
And so it went to be... Harry delivered the lecture to perfection, without a word out of place, while Einstein sat in the back row playing "chauffer", and enjoying a snooze for a change.
Just as Harry was descending from the podium, however, one of the research assistants intercepted him, and began to ask him a question on the theory of relativity.... one that involved a lot of complex calculations and equations. Harry replied to the assistant "The answer to this question is very simple! In fact, it's so simple, that I'm going to let my chauffer answer it!"
Anecdotes conti nued…Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductorcame down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he cameto Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn’t find histicket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn’t there, so he lookedin his briefcase but couldn’t find it. Then he looked in the seat besidehim. He still couldn’t find it.The conductor said, ‘Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who youare. I’m sure you bought a ticket. Don’t worry about it.’Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aislepunching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned aroundand saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under hisseat for his ticket.The conductor rushed back and said, ‘Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’tworry, I know who you are. No problem. You don’t need a ticket. I’m sureyou bought one.’Einstein looked at him and said, ‘Young man, I too, know who I am. What Idon’t know is where I’m going.”
ONE LAST ANECDOTE.Einstein and an assistant, having finished a paper, searched the office for a paper clip. They finally found one, too badly bent for use. They looked for an implement to straighten it, and after opening many more drawers came upon a whole box of clips. Einstein at once shaped one into a tool to straighten the bent clip. His assistant, puzzled, asked why he was doing this when there was a whole boxful of usable clips. "Once I am set on a goal it becomes difficult to deflect me," said Einstein.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIETY
• Albert Einstein contributed greatly to the understanding of the motion and other properties of sub-atomic particles, or quantum physics. By expanding on the ideas of Max Planck, and even of Sir Isaac Newton, Mr. Einstein developed theories that will lead us through this century.
Without his formulas, we would not have split the atom, we would have little understanding of nuclear fission or fusion, and we would have no background to utilize the relationships between matter and energy.• This splitting of matter was founded by Albert when he was in the USA.He
founded this for the welfare of the society.But the US government used it for destruction. This can be proved by the nuclear bomb that was dropped on japan,during WWII that killed millions.
