A Truly Beautiful Mind
Albert Einstein
Born- 14 march 1879 in German city Ulm.
Personal Life
First spoke after two and a half year and in starting he uttered everything twice.
His playmates called him "Brother Boring"
Einstein headmaster discouraged him and said he will not be able to do anything in his life
Einstein began learning violin at age of 6 because his mother wanted. He became amateur violinist.
He went to high school in Munich where his family moved when he was 15 months old.
Einstein hated school regimentation, and at age of 15 he left the school.
Einstein continued his education in Switzerland, which was more liberal than Munich.
Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in Physics.
Education and Job
After finishing school,
he decided to study at a university in Zurich.
Love Life
In Zurich, He felt a special interest in a fellow student, Mileva Maric, whom he found to be a “clever creature.”.
The couple
fell in love.
She came in Switzerland because University in Zurich gave degrees to women.
In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a
university graduate and unemployed.
He secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert
in the patent office in Bern.
Einstein was actually developing his own ideas in secret.
He is said to have jokingly called his desk drawer at work the “bureau of theoretical physics.”
Achievements
One of the famous papers of 1905 was Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, according to which time and distance are not absolute.
His world’s most famous formula which describes the relationship between mass and energy, Energy = Mass * speed square
Albert had wanted to marry Mileva right after finishing his studies, but his mother was against it.
Albert's mother thought Melivia, who was 3 years older than Albert was too old for him and she was bothered by her intelligence.
The pair finally married in January 1903, and had
two sons.
But few year later marriage flattered.
After years of constant fighting, the couple finally divorced in 1919.
Einstein married his cousin Elsa the same year.
In 1915, he had published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation of gravity
Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in
1921
The newspapers
proclaimed his work as “a scientific revolution.”
World War 2
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933,
Einstein emigrated to the United States.
American were afraid the Nazis could build and use
an atomic bomb.
Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on 2 August 1939, in which he warned harmful effects of nuclear bomb.
Americans dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the
destruction.
This time he wrote a public missive to
the United Nations. Over the next decade,
Einstein got ever more involved in politics
Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76, he was celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius.