Albert Einstein was and still is considered one of the greatest minds ever. With hundreds of theories and hundreds of essays, he was an extremely unique and interesting person. Albert Einstein has been and will be studied an admired by many millions of people all over the world.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany to Jewish parents by the names of Hermann and Pauline Einstein. His sister, Maja, Was born a few years later in 1881. When Einstein was five years old his father showed him a compass. This experience made a deep impression on Einstein, for this was his first encounter with a force field.
Einstein was a slow starter. He was nine and he still was not a fluent speaker. One thing that Einstein learned quickly was the violin. He was six years of age when he learned to play the violin. This talent was one of Einsteins' favorite past times.
Einstein took courses of science and mathematics in collage. In his free time Einstein studies physics literature by: Kirchhoff, Hertz, and Maxwell. Einstein studied philosopher Ernst Mach's “The Science of Mechanics” very carefully because this was one of his favorite papers ever written by somebody. In 1901, Einstein published his first paper. The paper was on capillary phenomena. Just after collage Einstein and two of his class friends, Maurice Solovine and Comrad Habicht formed Olympia Academy. The Olympia Academy was just the three of them meeting in the evenings to dine and talk about physics, philosophy, and many other fields, mostly in science and mathematics.
In 1903, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric. Together they had two sons, Hans Albert born in 1904 and Edward born in 1910. Einstein's theory of relativity first appeared in 1905 in a paper called “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.” Two other major papers of his were written in 1905, the first one was on the theory of the Brawin motion and the other paper was on the properties of light-introduction on fundamental theory of quantum physics -- the existence of quanta energy. The famous equation, E=mc2 appeared later in 1905 in a paper called “Does the Interia of a Body depend on it's Energy Content?” In 1911 Albert Einstein developed some ideas on a general theory of relativity. Also in 1911 Einstein was accepted into society as one of the world's top physicists.
In 1914 Albert Einstein was separated from his wife and then in 1919 he was officially divorced from Mileva Marie. In 1919 another important thing happened, Einstein completed his general theory of relativity. Einstein's general theory of relativity was published in 1916.
In late 1922, Einstein was named winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics. In 1933, Einstein had planned to go back to Germany, but Hitler had already taken over and Einstein felt that it was unsafe for him to gp to Germany se he remained in the United States of Amercia. At Princeton Einstein established anew life style for himself. He bascially placed himeself in exile. Durnind this time he wrote: “I am truly a lone traveller and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends or even my immediate family with my whole heart. In the face of all these ties I have never lost asense of distance and a need for solitude-feelings that increase with the years.” In 1952, on Einstein's seventy-third birthday Einstein was given an invation to become President of Isael, but he immediatley declined.
In the early hours of April 18, 1955 Albert Einstein died of a rupture of a long-existing aortic aneurism. It is rather symbolic the way a unified field theroy remained unfinished beside him when died.
The world lost a great person on April 18, 1955. Albert Einstein's theroys and papers contrubitued to so many people's lives in both a positive and negitive way. In some ways Einstein's ideas have hurt people but in so many ways they have helped us. Some people say the world would be set back fifty years if Albert Einstein had never shared his knoledge with the rest of the world. In some minor way Albert Einstein has touched millions of people lives and he will continue do so for hundres of years to come.
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