Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Forfatter af Relativity: The Special and General Theory
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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm. He spent his childhood in Munich where his family owned a small machine shop. By the age of twelve, Einstein had taught himself Euclidean Geometry. His family moved to Milan, where he stayed for a year, and he used it as an excuse to drop out of vis mere school, which bored him. He finished secondary school in Aarau, Switzerland and entered the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Einstein graduated in 1900, by studying the notes of a classmate since he did not attend his classes out of boredom, again. His teachers did not like him and would not recomend him for a position in the University. For two years, Einstein worked as a substitute teacher and a tutor before getting a job, in 1902, as an examiner for a Swiss patent office in Bern. In 1905, he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation on the dimension of molecules. Einstein also published three theoretical papers of central importance to the development of 20th Century physics. The first was entitled "Brownian Motion," and the second "Photoelectric Effort," which was a revolutionary way of thinking and contradicted tradition. No one accepted the proposals of the first two papers. Then the third one was published in 1905 and called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." Einstein's words became what is known today as the special theory of relativity and said that the physical laws are the same in all inertial reference systems and that the speed of light in a vacuum is a universal constant. Virtually no one understood or supported Einstein's argument. Einstein left the patent office in 1907 and received his first academic appointment at the University of Zurich in 1909. In 1911, he moved to a German speaking university in Prague, but returned to Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich in 1912. By 1914, Einstein was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics in Berlin. His chief patron in those early days was German physicist Max Planck and lent much credibility to Einstein's work. Einstein began working on generalizing and extending his theory of relativity, but the full general theory was not published until 1916. In 1919, he predicted that starlight would bend in the vicinity of a massive body, such as the sun. This theory was confirmed during a solar eclipse and cause Einstein to become world renowned after the phenomenon. Einstein received be Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. With his new fame, Einstein attempted to further his own political and social views. He supported pacifism and Zionism and opposed Germany's involvement in World War I. His support of Zionism earned him attacks from both Anti-Semitic and right wing groups in Germany. Einstein left Germany for the United States when Hitler came into power, taking a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Once there, he renounced his stand on pacifism in the face of Nazi rising power. In 1939 he collaborated with other physicists in writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt informing him of the possibility that the Nazis may in fact be attempting to create an atomic bomb. The letter bore only Einstein's signature but lent credence to the letter and spurred the U.S. race to create the bomb first. Einstein became an American citizen in 1940. After the war, Einstein was active in international disarmament as well as world government. He was offered the position of President of Israel but turned the honor down. Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Albert Einstein in 1947 [Photograph by Oren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J.; source: Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b46036]
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- Kanonisk navn
- Einstein, Albert
- Juridisk navn
- Einstein, Albert
- Fødselsdato
- 1879-03-14
- Dødsdag
- 1955-04-18
- Begravelsessted
- Cremated (ashes scattered)
Specifically: Scattered in an unknown river in New Jersey - Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Germany (birth)
Switzerland (naturalized 1901)
USA (naturalized 1940) - Fødested
- Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
- Dødssted
- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Dødsårsag
- internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Bopæl
- Italy
Switzerland - Uddannelse
- ETH Zurich (BA|1900)
University of Zurich (Ph.D|1905) - Erhverv
- Swiss patent examiner
professor
theoretical physicist - Relationer
- Marić, Mileva (1st wife, divorced)
Einstein, Elsa (2nd wife)
Szilard, Leo (friend, colleague)
Moszkowski, Alexander (friend, biographer)
Pais, Abraham (colleague, biographer) - Organisationer
- Swiss Patent Office
University of Zurich
Charles University in Prague
ETH Zurich
California Institute of Technology
Prussian Academy of Sciences (vis alle 12)
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
University of Leiden
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
University of Bern
Humboldt University of Berlin
German Physical Society - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Nobel Prize (Physics ∙ 1921)
Copley Medal (1925)
Max Planck Medal (1929)
Barnard Medal (1920)
Matteucci Medal (1921)
ForMemRS (1921) (vis alle 8)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1926)
Time Person of the Century (1999)
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