Albert Einstein’s Legacy A Summary

What is a Legacy? Something handed down or inherited from generation to generation. The greatest impact on the 20 th century?

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Science Molecular Studies Special Relativity Unified Field Theory ?? General Relativity Atomic Theory Thermodynamics Gases and Solids Electromagnetism Aether Speed of Light Space and Time E=mc 2 Gravitation Planetary Motion Mercury’s Orbit Astronomy Space-time Relative Time Dilation Length Contraction Brownian Motion Molecular Theory Specific Heat Bending of light Black Holes Cosmology Big Bang Gravitational WavesTheory of Gravity Atomic Energy GPS Quantum Mechanics Thermodynamics Spectra of Gases Blackbody Radiation Photoelectric Effect Challenges to QM Lasers, CD players, …Photons Nuclear Structure Quantum Theory QED, QCD Molecular Dynamics Theory of Solids Optical Communication Quantum Computing String Theory, TOE General Relativity Quantum Mechanics Astrophysics

Society Pacifism Zionism League of the New Fatherland Anti-war Movement Comm. of Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations) Jewish, secular house Supported refuge for surviving Jews Hebrew University of Jerusalem Offered Israeli Presidency Atomic Energy E=mc 2 World Government Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Letter to Roosevelt Russell-Einstein Manifesto – 1955 Last letter signed! Pugwash Conferences Philosophy and Religion What is Reality? Origins of the Universe God? Determinism vs Free Will Culture Architecture Literature Science Fiction Art, Photography, Video Cultural Icon Anti-military Democratic/Civil rights Against Arab-Jewish Attacks Socialism Anti-McCarthyism

Phrases Time and space are relative. Matter tells space how to bend and space tells matter how to move God does not play dice

Quotes Academic Freedom – “the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.” “Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the conciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works. We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come.” 1931 “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.”