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Albert
Einstein
14 March 1879 - 18
April 1955
photo colorized by Michael
Stecker
original B&W
photo
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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks
later the family moved to Munich, where he later on began his schooling at
the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy where he was educated
at Aarau, Switzerland. In 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic
School in Zurich where he received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1905 and
accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office.
During his stay at the Patent Office, and in his spare time, he produced
much of his remarkable work and in 1908 he was appointed Privatdozent in
Berne. In 1909 he became Professor Extraordinary at Zurich, in 1911
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the
following year to fill a similar post. In 1914 he was appointed Director
of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor in the University
of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until
1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated
to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at the
Center For Advanced Studies at Princeton,
New Jersey USA. He became a United States citizen in 1940
and retired from his post in 1945.
Einstein’s researches are, of course, well
chronicled and his more important works include Special
Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English
translations, 1920 and 1950), General
Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations
on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The
Evolution of Physics (1938). Among his non-scientific
works, About
Zionism (1930), Why
War? (1933), My
Philosophy (1934), and Out
of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the most
important.
Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work
on the photoelectric effect. honorary doctorate degrees in
science, medicine and philosophy from many European and American
universities. During the 1920’s he lectured in Europe, America and the Far
East, and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all the leading
scientific academies throughout the world. He gained numerous awards in
recognition of his work, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
of London in 1925, and the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in
1935.
Vitals
Born
in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879
Died in Princeton, NJ, USA on
18 April 1955
Education: Baccalaureate from Swiss Federal Polytechnic (1900) and Ph.D.
from University of Zurich (1905)
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921
Spouse: first, Mleva Miric. second, cousin Elsa Einstein.
Children (one daughter & two sons): Lieserl (girl died as an infant), Hans
Albert, Eduard (schizophrenic)
Grandson: Bernard Caesar Einstein (son of Hans Albert Einstein), 1930 -
2008
Great Grandson: Thomas Einstein,
M.D. of Los Angeles, CA
The Einstein
Family history
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1927 Solvay Conference
in Brussels
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First row (L to R):
M. Angmeir, Max Planck (with brown hat in hand), Marie Curie, H. Lorentz, Albert Einstien
(center), P. Langevin, E. Guye, R. Wilson, W. Richardson
Second
row (L to R):
P. Debye, M. Knudsen, L. Bragg, A. Kramers, Paul Dirac (above and to Einstein's right),
A.H. Compton, V. De Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr
.Third
row (L to R):
A. Piccard, E. Henriot, P. Ehrenfest, E. Herzen, T. De Donder, Erwin Schroedinger, E. Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg,
H.
Fowler,
L. Brillouin
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WikiMedia Commons colorized image from:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solvaycolored-2.jpeg
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1927 Solvay conference movie (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GZdZUouzBY&t=12s |
