Albert Einstein biography

Albert Einstein

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Birth :March 14, 1879Birth :March 14, 1879

• Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany


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1884

• Einstein saw a wonder when he was four or five years old: a magnetic compass.

• The needle's northward swing, guided by an invisible force, impressed him.

• The compass convinced him that there had to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden."


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Albert - as a Student

• Einstein knew, from then on, that he wanted to teach math and Science at a University someday.

• The problem was, he wasn’t a very good test-taker and could not get a job at a University because of it.

• Rumor has it that he had even failed a Math test, but some people question that because of the way grades were assigned back then.


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1905

• Albert Einstein develops his Special Theory of Relativity.

• He did this while working as a Patent Clerk in Germany.

• He wasn’t really even a scientist at the time.


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Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

• Relative to who is watching, space and time are transformed near the speed of light: distances appear to stretch; and clocks tick more slowly


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Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

• Einstein’s theory meant that Newton’s Laws needed to be modified.

• Space and time are not absolute - and the universe we live in is not actually the one Newton "discovered.


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Einstein in 1905

• Einstein uses the idea that light exists as tiny packets, or particles, that we now call photons.

• • His work anchors the

most shocking idea in twentieth century science: we live in a universe built out of tiny bits of energy and matter.


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Einstein in 1905

• Next, in April and May, Einstein publishes two papers.

• In one he invents a new method of counting and determining the size of the atoms or molecules in a given space.

• In the other he explains the phenomenon of Brownian motion.

• The net result is a proof that atoms actually exist - still an issue at that time.


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Einstein in 1905

• And then, in June, Einstein completes special relativity - which adds a twist to the story: special relativity sees light as particles and a continuous field of waves.


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Einstein IN 1905

• And of course, Einstein isn't finished. Later in 1905 comes the most famous relationship in physics: e=mc2.

• The energy content of a body is equal to the mass of the body times the speed of light squared.

• At first, even Einstein does not understand the full implications of his formula. 2mce


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• In 1907, Einstein begins to apply the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity.

• In 1911, he finally gets a job as a Professor of Physics at the German University.

Einstein IN 1907


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1910-1913• In 1910, Einstein

addressed a basic question: "Why is the sky blue?" He approached the problem by looking at the effect of the scattering of light by individual molecules in the atmosphere.

• In 1913, Einstein begins work on his new Theory of Gravity.


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1933

• Einstein and his wife, Elsa, escape Nazi Germany and set sail for the United States.


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1939• World War II

begins.• Einstein writes a

now famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging nuclear research and warning him of Germany’s building of an atomic bomb.


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April 18, 1955

• Albert Einstein dies of Heart Failure.

• This is a picture of his last blackboard.


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Famous Einstein Quotes

• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

• "If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."


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