Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
     Albert Einstein was one of the scientists that played a part in the Manhattan Project.  Born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Wurttemburg, Germany, Einstein not only invented his relativity theory, but also urged the president to provide governmental help for the study of the release of nuclear energy.  He warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Nazi Germany might be trying to built an atomic bomb.  Einstein's letter finally led to the production of the atomic bomb in 1945.
     Among his atomic research, Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for his paper on quanta.  He pledged to invest 6.5 million dollars in war bands at an auction in Kansas City.  Einstein became a professor at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.  In 1915 he invented the theory of relativity.  In 1940 Einstein became an American citizen before he died on April 18, 1955.  He was known for his famous equation E=mc2.
 


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