ALBERT EINSTEIN

HAND BY HAND WITH GENIUS

Albert Einstein was a world-famous scientist, philosopher and physicist. He was born on 14th March, 1879 in the city of Ulm, which later became part of Germany.

When Albert’s mother, Pauline Einstein gave birth to him, she thought that Einstein’s head was so big and misshapen that he was deformed but some weeks later the shape of his head became normal.

Einstein was inspired by a compass when he was five years old and sick in bed, his father showed him a simple compass. Einstein was mesmerized. What force exerted itself on the little needle to make it point in a single direction? This question haunted Einstein for many years and has been noted as the beginning of his fascination with science.

As a child, Einstein seldom spoke, when he did, he spoke very slowly indeed, he tried out entire sentences in his head until he got them right before he spoke aloud. He did this until he was nine years old. His parents were fearful that he was retarded of course, their fear was completely unfounded.

As a child, he grew up in Munich. He attended Luitpold Grammar School where he was a quiet student interested in Science and Mathematics.

Einstien’s mother, Pauline, was an accomplished pianist and wanted her son to love music too, so she started him on violin lessons when he was six years old.

Unfortunately, at first, he hated playing the violin. When he was 13 years old, he suddenly changed his mind about the violin when he heard the music of Mozart with a new passion for playing, Einstein continued to play the violin until the last few years of his life.

When he was 15, he left school and went his family to Milan. His ambition was to become a Maths or Physics teacher. He graduated from high school in Switzerland and finished his university studies in Zurich in 1900.

In 1901,Einstein, now in his early twenties, couldn’t find a teaching position. Instead he got a job as a technical assistant in Swiss Patent Office. In his spare time, he worked on maths problems, and in 1905 he published some of his famous scientific theories.

Included was the well-known ‘SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY’. During the 1920s, he received may different honor‘s. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.

Twenty-one years after writing his Special Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein invented a refrigerator that operated on alcohol gas. The refrigerator was patented in 1926 but never went into production because new technology made it unnecessary. Einstein invented the refrigerator because he read about a family was poisoned by a sulphur dioxide-emitting refrigerator.

Einstein’s researches are, of course, well chronicled and his more important works include;

Ẹ Special Theory of Relativity

Ẹ Relativity

Ẹ General Theory of Relativity

Ẹ Investigations on theory of Brownian Movement

Ẹ The Evolution of Physics.

Among his non-scientific works,

Ẹ About Zionism

Ẹ Why War?

Ẹ My Philosophy and

Ẹ Out of My Later Years are perhaps the most importants.

Albert Einstein died on 18th April,1955. He was 76 years old. His name and face are still famous all over the world, and many people

believe he was the greatest genius of the 20th century and perhaps of all

time.

DID YOU KNOW ?

Some say he didn’t start speaking until age four. Stanford economist Dr. Thomas Sowell even coined the controversial term "Einstein Sydrome" to describe exceptionally bright people whose speech is delayed.

In 1895,at the age of 17,Albert Einstein applied for early admission into Swiss Federal Polytechnical School. He passed the math and science sections of the entrance exam, but he failed the rest (history, languages, geography, etc.)!

Even though Einstein never learned to swim, he kept sailing as a hobby throughout his life.

President of Israel Chaim Weizmann died on November 9, 1952, Einstein was asked if he would accept the position of being the second president of Israel. Einstein, age 73, declined the offer.

Part of Einstein’s charm was his disheveled look. In addition to his uncombed hair, one of Einstein’s peculiar habits was to never wear socks.

There is a chemical element called like his name: Einsteinium

Pathologist Thomas Harvey at Princeton Hospital conducted an autopsy in which he removed Einstein’s brain. Rather than putting the brain back in the body. Shortly thereafter, Harvey was fired from his position at Princeton because he refused to give up Einstein’s brain.

A) 14th March 1879

B) 26th April 1999

C) 30th May 1896

D) 15th December 1890

1) WHEN WAS HE BORN?

A)Pauline

B) Catherine

C) Anna

D)Elena

2) WHAT WAS HIS MOTHER’S NAME?

A) A Word

B) An Apple

C) A Compass

D) A Pencil

3) WHAT WAS HE INSPIRED BY WHEN HE WAS 8 YEARS OLD?

A)The Flute

B)The Piano

C) The Violin

D) Nothing

4) WHAT WAS HE PLAYING?

A)Nobel Prize For Physics

B) Nobel Prize For Maths

C) Nobel Prize For Book

D) Nobel Prize For Science

5) WHAT DID HE WIN?

A)Bach

B) Mozart

C)Choppin

D)Alexander Rybak

6) WHO WAS HIS FAVOURITE MUSICIAN?

A)Refrigerator

B) Compass

C) Lamp

D) Phone

7)WHAT WAS INVENTED BY HİM?

A)IN ULM

B) IN MUNICH

C) IN PARIS

D) IN LONDON

8) WHERE WAS HE BORN?

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