The legend: Albert Einstein


Born on 14 March 1879, Albert Einstein has been one of the greatest legends science has ever got. He was a German born theoretical physicist whose discoveries brought about once-unimaginable changes. His childhood was turbulent.he suffered from Dyslexia,Epilepsy, and Autism.  He had speaking disorders. His principle once said to Einstein's father, "This child is worth nothing. He shall never be able to get a job."   but he turned out to be one of the world's greatest geniuses. none could predict it in his extreme childhood except when he started showing signs of intelligence and a deep interest in (as I always say) the divine world of science and mathematics, reading Immanuel kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Euclid's Elements ( which he called as "the holy little geometry book") , building models and mechanical devices for fun and began to show a talent for mathematics.

 SOME DISCOVERIES

  • General relativity and special relativity (one of the pillars of modern physics including quantum mechanics)
  • Photoelectric effect
  • Mass-energy equivalence (E = mc2 )
  • Theory of Brownian Motion
  • Einstein field equations
  • Bose–Einstein statistics
  • Bose–Einstein correlations
  • Bose-Einstein Condensate
  • Unified Field Theory
  • EPR paradox

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NOTABLE AWARDS

  • Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
  • Matteucci Medal (1921)
  • Copley Medal (1925)
  • Max Planck Medal (1929)
  • Time Person of the Century (1999)

Political view:

In February 1933 while on a visit to the United States, Einstein decided not to return to Germany due to the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler. Einstein became an American citizen in 1940. Einstein was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.Einstein supported defending the Allied forces, but largely denounced using the new discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon. Later, with the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. He was a follower of socialism.

A mournful day for the lover of science stood on 18 April,1955  when Einstein died of heart failure.


Credit of the basic information goes to wikipedia.org





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