Albert Einstein By Dalisay Estrada

Einstein’s Childhood Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Einstein was slow in learning how to speak. Began formal school at the age six when he enrolled in Petersschule on Blumenstrasse, a Catholic elementary school in Munich.

Einstein’s Childhood He had his first scientific experiment by the age of four or five. His father showed him a pocket compass and the boy was marveled at the fact that regardless of where the compass turned, the needle always pointed North. Thus demonstrated an interest in science and problem solving even before entering school.

Childhood Did not complete high school. Performed his first famous thought experiment at the age of sixteen. Graduated in 1900 from ETH with a degree in physics. He struggled for two years and could not find a job until he was hired at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property.

Achievements Absolute time had to be replaced by a new absolute. He asserted the equivalence of mass and energy, which would lead to the famous formula E=mc 2

Achievements Challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that light could be a collection of particles. winning a Noble Prize for it in His paper concerning the Brownian motion of particles. With profound insight, Einstein blended ideas from kinetic theory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an equation for the mean free path of such particles as a function of the time.

Achievements Einstein showed how to calculate Avogadro's number and the size of molecules. In 1910, Einstein answered a basic question: 'Why is the sky blue?' His paper on the phenomenon called critical opalescence solved the problem by examining the cumulative effect of the scattering of light by individual molecules in the atmosphere.

Achievements Einstein later published a paper in 1915 called "General Relativity." General Relativity took over when Special Relativity started to fail. Controversy started to rise when Einstein released his second paper called "General Relativity." In 1917, Einstein published a paper which uses general relativity to model the behavior of an entire universe. General relativity has spawned some of the weirdest, and most important results in modern astronomy.

Achievements Einstein recognized that there might be a problem with the classical notion of cause and effect. Given the peculiar, dual nature of quanta as both waves and particles, it might be impossible, he warns, to definitively tie effects to their causes. Between 1905 and 1925, Einstein transformed humankind's understanding of nature on every scale, from the smallest to that of the cosmos as a whole. Now, nearly a century after he began to make his mark, we are still exploring Einstein's universe.

Facts…. When he was in school there he was always getting into trouble. He was constantly playing pranks on his teachers and classmates in school. It was in school playing a prank when Einstein became interested in physics. He blew a spitball at the back of a classmate's neck. He became interested in the dynamics of the spitball and ended up understanding differential and integral calculus. Even so, before he was finished with high school, his prank playing got him expelled from school.

Facts…. He never did let his parents learn that he had been kicked out of school. He instead auditioned with the London Symphony and got in the symphony. He went on to become the 'first chair'. He was known as a brilliant violin soloist. But he was not liked in the symphony either because of his non-conformity and his continuous pranks. He would add his own musical improvisation, a prank in the middle of a musical piece before an audience. The conductor would get so mad at him, as would the other members of the orchestra. He was asked to leave the symphony.

Facts… Einstein learned that scientists were trying to make an atomic bomb. Einstein was afraid that the Nazis would be the first to build the bomb and he was afraid of what they would do with the bomb. So he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt that he would help the country develop an atomic bomb. This bomb was used in World War II and the threat of the bomb helped the Jewish people.

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