The genius - EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein

GERMAN-AMERICAN PHYSICIST

Albert Einstein

GERMAN-AMERICAN PHYSICst

BORN

March 14, 1879
Ulm, Germany

DIED

April 18, 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey

SUBJECTS OF STUDY

• light
• photoelectric effect
• Brownian motion
• gravitational wave
• space-time

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Copley Medal (1925)
• Nobel Prize (1921)

Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germanydied April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his report of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.

                                     .Childhood And Education

Einsteins parents were secular, center-class Jews. His father, Hermann Einstein, was originally a featherbed salesman and sophisticated ran an electrochemical factory once temperate completion. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the relatives household. He had one sister, Maria (who went by the herald Maja), born two years after Albert.

During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced much of his remarkable con and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the later year to keep amused a same growth. In 1914 he was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 taking into consideration than he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to approve the twist of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton*. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his make known in 1945.

After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined, and he collaborated as soon as Dr. Chaim Weizmann in establishing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Einstein always appeared to have a determined view of the problems of physics and the aspiration to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was clever to visualize the main stages on the order of the quirk to his seek. He regarded his major achievements as mere stepping-stones for the gone-door-door further.

At the launch of his scientific perform, Einstein realized the inadequacies of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics in addition to the laws of the electromagnetic ground. He dealt when classical problems of statistical mechanics and problems in which they were complex considering quantum theory: this led to an fable of the Brownian leisure doings of molecules. He investigated the thermal properties of buoyant taking into consideration a low radiation density and his comments laid the opening of the photon theory of well-ventilated.

In his to the front days in Berlin, Einstein postulated that the precise comments of the special theory of relativity must moreover furnish a theory of gravitation and in 1916 he published his paper vis--vis the general theory of relativity. During this time he furthermore contributed to the problems of the theory of radiation and statistical mechanics.

In the 1920s, Einstein embarked harshly speaking the construction of unified arena theories, although he continued to discharge adherence upon the probabilistic notes of quantum theory, and he persevered behind this act in America. He contributed to statistical mechanics by his keep going on front of the quantum theory of a monatomic gas and he has with competent vital discharge faithfulness in relationship surrounded by atomic transition probabilities and relativistic cosmology.

After his retirement he continued to be in towards the unification of the basic concepts of physics, taking the opposite access, geometrisation, to the majority of physicists.

Einstein's researches are, of course, proficiently chronicled and his more important works add happening Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations upon Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Among his non-scientific works, About Zionism (1930), Why War? (1933), My Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the most important.

Albert Einstein usual honorary doctorate degrees in science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American universities. During the 1920's he lectured in Europe, America and the Far East, and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all the leading scientific academies throughout the world. He gained numerous awards in tribute of his accomplish, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935.

Einstein's gifts inevitably resulted in his perch much in sore solitude and, for relaxation, music played an important share in his moving picture. He married Mileva Maric in 1903 and they had a daughter and two sons; their marriage was dissolved in 1919 and in the connected year he married his cousin, Elsa Lwenthal, who died in 1936. He died upon April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.