Legacies- Albert Einstein

Name:Albert Einstein
Life Span: March 14th 1879-April 18, 1955
Country: Germany
Occupation: Theoretical Physicist
Best known for: E=mc2
Influenced By:
His exposure to Maxwell’s Law of Magnetism
Ernst Mach, his mentor
Max Plank, another one of his mentors

Timeline:

1879-1890:
Albert Einstein is born to Hermann Einstein and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany. He soon receives his first compass and begins to investigate the natural world. At age ten he sets into a program of self-education and learns as much about science as he can.

1891-1900:
The Einstein’s move to Pavia, Italy and Albert stays behind attempting to finish the school year, but only lasts a term. He then follows his family to Pavia. There he tries to skip high school by taking an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top technical university, but he fails. He goes to the Swiss town of Aarau to finish high school. After graduating at 17, he enrolls in the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich. He falls in love with Mileva Maric, a classmate. Einstein graduates from ETH.

1901-1910:
Einstein becomes a Swiss citizen. Mileva becomes pregnant with his baby, and moves back to Hungary to give birth at her parent’s home. Albert moves to Bern. In January, Mileva gives birth to their daughter, Lieserl, whom they eventually put up for adoption, reportedly gets sick, and then all records of her disappear. Einstein’s father becomes ill and dies. The next January, Einstein and Mileva marry. The next year Mileva gives birth to their first son, Hans Albert. 1905 is Albert’s “Annus Mirabilis,” or “Miracle Year.” his Special Theory of Relativity is born. On June 30th, Einstein, submits his paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" to the leading German physics journal. At age 26, he applies his theory to mass and energy and formulates the equation E=mc2. He begins applying the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity. A son, Eduard is born to him and Mileva.

1911-1920:
Albert and his family move to Prague, where he is given a full professorship at the German University there. He is the youngest to attend the invitation-only Solvay Conference at Brussels, the first world physics conference. The family then moves to Zurich where Einstein is given a job as professor of Theoretical Physics at the ETH. He begins work on his new Theory of Gravity. Einstein is given a job as the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. The family moves to Berlin, but after 3 months, Mileva and sons return to Zurich and divorce proceedings begin. Einstein completes his General Theory of Relativity. He falls seriously ill, and is nursed back to health by his cousin, Elsa. He publishes his first paper on cosmology. In 1919, Albert marries Elsa, and on May 29th, a solar eclipse proves his General Theory of Relativity is feasible.

1921-1930:
Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He attends the fifth Solvay Conference and begins working on the idea for quantum mechanics with Neils Bohr. He also begins developing his idea for a unified field theory.

1931-1940:
Einstein turns 53 in 1932 and is at his height of fame. He is a Jew, and due to World War II and the threat of Nazis in Germany, he and Elsa move to the United States. They settle in Princeton, New Jersey, and he assumes a position at the Institute for Advanced Study. Elsa dies after a brief illness. In 1939, Einstein writes his famous letter to FDR about his concerns of the possibility of Germany building an atomic bomb, and urges nuclear research. The next year, Einstein becomes an American citizen.

1941-1950:
Mileva dies

1951-1955:
On April 16, 1955 Einstein dies of heart failure

Albert Einstein was born in Württemberg, Germany on March 14th 1879 to Herman and Pauline Einstein. He goes to the Swiss town of Aarau to finish school. After graduating at 17, he enrolled in the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich. He fell in love with Mileva Maric, a classmate, and soon graduates from ETH. In 1901 Mileva became pregnant with his baby, and moved back to Hungary to give birth at her parent’s home. In January, Mileva gave birth to their daughter, Lieserl, whom they eventually put up for adoption, reportedly gets sick, and then all records of her disappear. Einstein’s father became ill and died in 1902. The next January, Einstein and Mileva married. Then, in 1903 Mileva gave birth to their first son, Hans Albert.

1905 was Albert’s “Annus Mirabilis,” or “Miracle Year.” his Special Theory of Relativity was born. On June 30th, Einstein, submits his paper, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" to the leading German physics journal. At age 26, he applied his theory to mass and energy and formulated the equation E=mc2. He then began applying the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity. In 1910 a son, Eduard was born to him and Mileva. In 1911 Albert and his family moved to Prague, where he was given a full professorship at the nearby German University. He was the youngest to attend the invitation-only Solvay Conference at Brussels, the first world physics conference. The family then moved to Zurich where Einstein was given a job as professor of Theoretical Physics at the ETH. Einstien was given a job as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin.

The family moved to Berlin in April 1914, but Mileva and the sons returned to Zurich after 3 months. Divorce prodeedings soon began. In 1917, Albert fell seriously ill, and is nursed back to health by his cousin Elsa, who he married two years later. In 1921 Einstein was awarded the nobel prize for physics and for his theory of Special Relativity. When Einstein is 53, because he is Jewish and World War II had broken out, he and Elsa moved to the United States After settling in Princeton New Jersey, Else died after a brief illness. In 1949 Mileva, Einstein's ex-wife died, and on April 16th, 1955, Einstein died of heart failure.

He was a theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, for his “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” The law of the Photoelectric effect was the theory that light was made up pf particles called photons, which acted like waves. Further work on this discovery led Einstein and other scientists to understand that all forms of matter behave both as particles and as waves. Einstein also came up with the Special Theory of Relativity, which is the theory that time can bend around cetain scenarios. This was not a widely acceted theory, and when asked to explain his theory at a party, Einstein’s relpy was “If you had to sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it would feel like two hours, while if I was on a date with a beautiful woman for two hours, it would feel like two minutes.” Another achievement of Einsteins was the formula E=mc2. Einstein realized that matter and energy are really two different forms of the same thing, and that matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter. The formula literally translates into energy=mass times the velocity of light squared. Einstein also came up the a General Theory of Relativity is the geometrical theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915 or 16. It unifies special relativity, Newton's law of universal gravitation, and the insight that gravitational acceleration can be described by the curvature of space and time, the latter being produced by the mass-energy and momentum content of the matter in spacetime

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DID YOU KNOW?

-Einstein loved to Party.
-Einstein though considered one of the greatest minds in history did not begin speaking until he was three years old, and did not become fluent in German until he was 9, leading some to think the he was slow.
-He never learned to drive a car.
-Einstein had a house in Mattituck, Long Island.