Life History of Dr. Albert Einstein

 

Life History of

                               Dr.ALBERT EINSTEIN 

                                                                                              (1879-1955)            

                   Albert Einstein was a German born Physicist who is considerd to be one of the world’s greatest thinkers.He is generally considered as the most influential physicst of 20^th century.He developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.

He was born on March 14,1879 at Württemberg, Germany as the son of a Jewish electrical engineer Hermann Einstein and Pauline Einstein.He had a sibling,Maria who is two years younger than Albert.

After a childhood in Germany and Italy, Einstein studied physics and mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. He became a Swiss citizen and in 1905 was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich while working at the Swiss patent office in Bern. That year, which historians of Einstein’s career call the annus mirabilis–the “miracle year”–he published five theoretical papers that were to have a profound effect on the development of modern physics.

Einstein’s fourth groundbreaking scientific work of 1905 addressed what he termed his special theory of relativity. In special relativity, time and space are not absolute, but relative to the motion of the observer. Thus, two observers traveling at great speeds in regard to each other would not necessarily observe simultaneous events in time at the same moment, nor necessarily agree in their measurements of space. In Einstein’s theory, the speed of light, which is the limiting speed of any body having mass, is constant in all frames of reference. In the fifth paper that year, an exploration of the mathematics of special relativity, Einstein announced that mass and energy were equivalent and could be calculated with an equation, E=mc2. Light,Relativity,Photoelectric effect,Brownian motion,space-time were his subjects of study.

Einstein worked at the patent office in Bern, during which time he produced several pioneering works in the field of physics. He was later employed at universities in Bern, Zurich, and Prague, and from 1914, in Berlin.

Einstein was married twice, to Mileva Maric from 1903 until 1919 and to his cousin Elsa from 1919 until her death in 1936. There is evidence that he diverted part of his winnings from the 1921 Nobel Prize into providing for Mileva and his children.

Dr.Albert Einstein was not only a most important Physicsist,he was a cultural iconist as well. Einstein was a passionate musician who began playing the violin at age 6, d
iscovering the Mozart violin sonatas at 13 and playing throughout his life. After suffering an abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture several days before, Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, at age 76.

According to estimates by means of biographical data, Albert Einstein's IQ has been estimated to sit anywhere between 160 and 180. Obviously he had a special brain. So special that when he died in Princeton Hospital, on April 18, 1955, the pathologist on call, Thomas Harvey, stole it. That would firmly place the physicist in the genius territory. 
His scientific breakthroughs were so breathtaking that his gentle, bemused expression and riot of white hair have come to symbolize genius in the popular imagination.