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Albert Einstein – Biography
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Thinking. We all do it, but for some it can be taken
to a different level; maybe even to a different place.
Especially when your job is made for outside-the-box thinking;
you may need some creativity to place a theory or two. Well,
one man did just that not to be compared to anyone but to
be known for it for many reasons. Albert Einstein will go down
in history as the greatest thinker in science history.
“It all started on March 14, 1879 when his parents,
Hermann and Paulina Kech Einstein, gave birth to a son they
named Albert Einstein (World Book 146). He was born in
Ulm, Wurttemburg, Germany but one year later his family
moved to Munich where his father and uncle ran a small
electrochemical factory. He showed no early signs of genius.
His real education began at home because of his dislike of
formal instructions. The first thing he was introduced to was
algebra and the theorem of Pythagoras. He found much
pleasure in solving algebraic and geometrical problems. When
he was 16, he was drawn to theoretical physics and
attempted to pass the entrance exams to get accepted by
Swiss Polytechnic in Zurich, Switzerland. He passed on his
second attempt (Encyclopedia Americana 1). “He graduated in
1900 and soon afterwards he married Mileva Martisch, who
was a fellow student at Zurich. They also had two sons
(Encyclopedia Americana 1).”
“The year of 1905 was called Einsteins annus mirabilis
(miracle year). During this time he published four outstanding
scientific papers:
An explanation of the photoelectric effect indicating that
light energy came in chunks or quanta. This changed
thinking on the nature of light.
A discussion of Brownian motion demonstrating the
existence of molecules.
The nature of space and time.
The dynamics of individual moving bodies
(Einsteins Science#top 1).”
“The last two formed the basis of Einsteins Special Theory
of Relativity and led to the famous equation, E=mc2. This
equation illustrates that matter and energy are
interchangeable, and that a small amount of mass is made up
of a large amount of energy (Einsteins Science#top 1).”
In 1914, he rose to be the most pretigious and highest paying
theorectical physicists in the world (World Book 146).
Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1921. This was for his services to theorectical physics and
for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
(Einsteins Science#top 1). In between the years of 1916 and
1925, he made contributions to the study of light including
the idea of stimulated emission of radiation. This concept
led to the development
of the laser
(Einsteins