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Interesting
Facts:
- Upon Graduation from Secondary School, Albert did not gain admittance
to a university, even after most of his fellow classmates had secured
positions.
- Avoided Swiss Military
Service because of his flat feet and varicose veins.
- In 1952, Einstein was offered the position of the Second President of
Israel
- One week before his death Einstein signed his last letter. It was a
letter to Bertrand Russell
in which he agreed that his name should go on a manifesto urging all
nations to give up nuclear weapons. It is fitting that one of his
last acts was to argue, as he had done all his life, for international
peace.
Accomplishments:
- Wrote 3 Papers in
1905
1. A paper examining the emission of electromagnetic energy
from radiating objects. Einstein ultimately used Planck's
quantum hypothesis to describe the electromagnetic radiation
of light.
2. A
paper proposing the special theory of relativity.
3. A paper discussing statistical mechanics.
- Made important contributions to quantum theory.
- Found a way to allow the special theory of relativity to
encompass acceleration by use of the Principle of Equivalence.
- In 1911, made predictions about the bending of a ray of
light from a distant star as the light passed near the Sun.
- In 1912, Einstein created the general theory of relativity with
the help of Marcel Grossman, a mathematician.
- In 1915, Einstein
published the definitive version of his General Theory of
Relativity.
Notes on
the Time Period:
- In 1920, strong anti-Jewish
sentiments were developing in Germany.
- In 1933, The Nazi's, an anti-jewish group,
came to power in Germany.
Ethnicity:
Jewish.
Education:
1886 - Schooling in Munich, Violin Lessons, and Home-Education in
Judaism.
1888 - The Luitpold Gymnasium.
1891 - Began studying calculus.
1895 - Failed the examination to study for a diploma in Electrical
Engineering at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.
---- - Secondary School at Aarau
1905 - Earned a doctorate from the University of Zurich. His
thesis was On a new determination of molecular dimensions.
Awards:
1921 - Barnard
Medal
1921 - Nobel Prize (for his work on the Photoelectric Effect in
1905)
1921 - Fellow of the Royal Society
1925 - Royal Society Copley Medal
1926 - The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
1934 - AMS Gibbs Lecturer
Citizenship:
1896 - Renounced German
Citizenship
1899 - Applied for Swiss Citizenship
1901 - Was Granted Citizenship to Switzerland.
1900 - Graduated as a Teacher of Math and Physics.
Employment:
1901 - Teacher of
Mathematics at a Technical High School in Winterthur.
1902-1909 - Worked in the Patent Office in Bern,
Switzerland.
1908 - Lecturer at the University of Bern
1909 - Resigned from the University of Bern and became a
professor of physics at the University of Zurich.
1911 - Became a full professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University
in Prague.
1912 - Became a chair at the Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule in Zurich.
1913 - Became a chair at the University of Berlin, in Germany, as
well as a researcher at the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the
directorship of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute of Physics.
1932 - Accepted a Post at Princeton University. Einstein
was to divide his time between The University of Berlin and
Princeton. However, the Nazi's came to power in Germany in 1933
and Einstein never returned to the University of Berlin.
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