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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm (Germany). Although he was a late talker, he was a smart child with a keen interest in math and science. At the age of ten he already read popular science books. In 1896, Einstein enrolled at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute. He was a brilliant but lazy student who only acted if the subject interested him, he graduated as the second worst in his class. Therefore, he did not find an academic job and became a technical expert at the Swiss patent office. Einstein met Mileva Marić in Zurich. They married in 1903 and had three children.
Einstein continued his scientific research in his spare time. In 1905, he published four scientific studies, each of which revolutionized physics. The first concerned the photoelectric effect, the basis for solar panels. The second described his special theory of relativity, a new theory for particles that move almost at the speed of light. The third was about the famous consequence of relativity, E=mc2, the fourth about the Brownian movement. Only three years later, Einstein got his first academic job, a professorship at the University of Bern. In 1914 he was appointed to the prestigious university of Berlin. In 1915 Einstein had formulated the general theory of relativity. It explained gravity as a curvature of space and time and was experimentally proven in 1919. However, Einstein's hard work had ruined his private life: He and Mileva separated in 1914 and divorced in 1919.
Einstein married his second wife, Elsa, in 1919.
After the success of the general theory of relativity,
he immediately became famous: sold-out lectures,
the 1921 Nobel Prize and other prizes and honors.
Einstein spent much of his later life in vain trying
to find a theory that unites gravity with electricity
and magnetism. His scientific opinion became conservative
at a later age, because he vehemently opposed the new quantum theory.
In the 1930s, Einstein's Jewish heritage forced him to flee Nazism in Europe.
He settled in Princeton, New Jersey. There he continued his research.
The peace movement became his main concern after the atomic bombs of 1945.
Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 of a ruptured aneurysm of the aorta.
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For a child destined to become one of the greatest scientists of all time, Albert Einstein had a rather faltering start. He expressed his first words when he was already over two years ...
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Einstein's plans to go to the Zurich Polytechnic Institute in 1895 were thwarted by messing up his entrance exam. Although he passed the scientific components with flying colors, he failed ...
The one who graduated fifth in Einstein's class at the Zurich Polytechnic Institute was a young woman named Mileva Marić. During the two years before graduation, she and Einstein ...
After Einstein graduated from the Zurich Polytechnic Institute Zurich in 1900, he unsuccessfully tried to get an academic appointment for two years. Two things were not in his favor ...
Hans Albert Einstein was born on May 14, 1904, the son of Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marić. Einstein was delighted and used his technical creativity to make toys ...
Despite the four groundbreaking publications in the "miracle year" 1905, including the publication on the special theory of relativity, it took another three years before Einstein finally ...
Einstein left Germany in 1932, apparently for a three-month vacation. He knew deep down that he would never return. The rise of anti-Semitic sentiments in that country made his life ...
Like most things, Albert Einstein's relationship with religion was very unconventional. He was born into a Jewish family who cared little for the Jewish faith. That even went so far as to go to a Catholic school ...
Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect and for "Merits in theoretical physics". The mystery was why it had taken so long for the greatest physics of ...
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The special theory of relativity excludes moving faster than the speed of light. If this "superluminal" speed were to be allowed, the order of cause and effect would be reversed, leading to paradoxical ...
Einstein knew that his special theory was incomplete because it applied only to objects moving at a uniform speed. Hence "special" theory. Between 1905 and 1915, he pursuited a generalization ...
In 1912, Einstein already knew that the bending of the flat "space-time" of the special theory was an important factor in the development of his new theory. After all, gravity causes ...
After the great triumph of relativity, Einstein spent years searching for an all-encompassing description of physics, the so-called unified field theory. At the time, there were ...
Einstein's biggest blunder, which he never wanted to admit, was his resistance to quantum theory. He did feel for one version: the "hidden variable theory". He hated the indeterminate nature of ordinary ...
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Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity forever changed the way we understand space and time. He also left his mark on hundreds of technologies that we use daily. Our lives would be very different without Einstein's brain and curiosity.
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