"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein's Life Biography
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on March the 14th, 1879. He, as a child, grew up in middle-class Jewish family where his father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who alongside his brother, founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment in Munich, Germany. Einstein's mother ran the family household, and gave birth to Einstein's only sister, and only sibling for that matter, Maja, born 2 years after him.
Einstein attended primary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich, where he excelled in his studies. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. Einstein experienced speech difficultly, where he'd pause to consider what to say next when speaking to people. Einstein wrote about two events in his childhood life that affected him on how he shaped out to be as an adult, and world-renowned scientist. He wrote in his journal about one encounter he had with a compass at the age of 5, where he marveled at the invisible forces that turned the needle in the middle. The other was at age 12, where he discovered a book about geometry which he read over countless times for his enjoyment and learning purposes. In 1889, the Einstein family invited a poor Polish medical student, Max Talmud to come to their house for Thursday evening meals. Talmud became an informal tutor to young Albert, introducing him to higher mathematics and philosophy. One of the books Talmud shared with Albert was a children’s science book in which the author imagined riding alongside electricity that was traveling inside a telegraph wire. Einstein began to wonder what a light beam would look like if you could run alongside it at the same speed. If light were a wave, then the light beam should appear stationary, like a frozen wave. Yet, in reality, the light beam is moving. This paradox led him to write his first "scientific paper" at age 16, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields." This question of the relative speed to the stationary observer and the observer moving with the light was a question that would dominate his thinking for the next 10 years.
Einstein moved with his family to Italy where he continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, Albert Einstein gained his diploma and acquired a Swiss citizenship. He sought long and hard to find a teaching position at a university however his searches proved futile. He then found and got an accepted position as a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. Though he found his job dull, he had ample time and used it day-dream things about the universe, and it is because of this "day-dreaming" he became the most influential physicist of the 20th Century. In 1905, what is known as his "miracle" year, he published 4 visionary papers, the first of which answered the age old question, "What is light?" The Photoelectric Effect. This described light as a particle, and is what we use in televisions and lasers. In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics because of his paper on The Photoelectric Effect. Einstein, after describing light as a particle, changed his direction to the elusive force, gravity and sure-enough, in 1905, Albert Einstein made yet, another revolutionary discovery that would change the way humans look at the universe. He found, the Special theory of relativity. Albert Einstein was awarded his doctor's degree in the year 1905. In 1915, Einstein completed his two-part theory, The theory of General relativity.
In December, 1932, Einstein decided to leave Germany forever due to the communist German government which had ordered an assassination on Albert Einstein because he was a Jew. He took a position at the newly formed institute for advanced study at Princeton, New Jersey. It was here, where he would spend the rest of his life trying to develop his final theory that physicist's today still are working on to fulfill Einstein's dream. A Grand Unified Theory, that is an equation that could describe every possible phenomenon in the universe, perhaps no more then an inch long.
On the 18th of April 1955, aged 76, Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey.
Einstein attended primary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich, where he excelled in his studies. He enjoyed classical music and played the violin. Einstein experienced speech difficultly, where he'd pause to consider what to say next when speaking to people. Einstein wrote about two events in his childhood life that affected him on how he shaped out to be as an adult, and world-renowned scientist. He wrote in his journal about one encounter he had with a compass at the age of 5, where he marveled at the invisible forces that turned the needle in the middle. The other was at age 12, where he discovered a book about geometry which he read over countless times for his enjoyment and learning purposes. In 1889, the Einstein family invited a poor Polish medical student, Max Talmud to come to their house for Thursday evening meals. Talmud became an informal tutor to young Albert, introducing him to higher mathematics and philosophy. One of the books Talmud shared with Albert was a children’s science book in which the author imagined riding alongside electricity that was traveling inside a telegraph wire. Einstein began to wonder what a light beam would look like if you could run alongside it at the same speed. If light were a wave, then the light beam should appear stationary, like a frozen wave. Yet, in reality, the light beam is moving. This paradox led him to write his first "scientific paper" at age 16, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields." This question of the relative speed to the stationary observer and the observer moving with the light was a question that would dominate his thinking for the next 10 years.
Einstein moved with his family to Italy where he continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, Albert Einstein gained his diploma and acquired a Swiss citizenship. He sought long and hard to find a teaching position at a university however his searches proved futile. He then found and got an accepted position as a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. Though he found his job dull, he had ample time and used it day-dream things about the universe, and it is because of this "day-dreaming" he became the most influential physicist of the 20th Century. In 1905, what is known as his "miracle" year, he published 4 visionary papers, the first of which answered the age old question, "What is light?" The Photoelectric Effect. This described light as a particle, and is what we use in televisions and lasers. In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics because of his paper on The Photoelectric Effect. Einstein, after describing light as a particle, changed his direction to the elusive force, gravity and sure-enough, in 1905, Albert Einstein made yet, another revolutionary discovery that would change the way humans look at the universe. He found, the Special theory of relativity. Albert Einstein was awarded his doctor's degree in the year 1905. In 1915, Einstein completed his two-part theory, The theory of General relativity.
In December, 1932, Einstein decided to leave Germany forever due to the communist German government which had ordered an assassination on Albert Einstein because he was a Jew. He took a position at the newly formed institute for advanced study at Princeton, New Jersey. It was here, where he would spend the rest of his life trying to develop his final theory that physicist's today still are working on to fulfill Einstein's dream. A Grand Unified Theory, that is an equation that could describe every possible phenomenon in the universe, perhaps no more then an inch long.
On the 18th of April 1955, aged 76, Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey.