Albert Einstein Essay, Research Paper

On March 14, 1879, I was born. My parents, Hermann and Polina Einstein, named me Albert. As a youth, I attended a Catholic primary school in Munich. I learned to play the violin at five and surpassed other kids in a lot of areas by the age of seven. Later, for college, I attended the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Zurich where I studied math and physics. Had it not been for the help of other students, I probably would have never graduated and the world would not have known my name, Albert Einstein. Finally, in 1900, I graduated. In 1905, I became a Swiss citizen. After college, I worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Berg. There I had much free time, during which I developed many theories all of you now know in modern time. I also married my first wife, Mileva Maric, at this time. In 1904, my first son, Hans Albert was born. In 1910, my second son, Eduart, was born. I later divorced Mileva. On February 14, 1919, I married my cousin Elsa. After my job at the patent office I went on to become a teacher at several different universities. In 1933, while I was visiting England and the U.S., the Nazis took my property and deprived me of my possessions and citizenship. I was lucky not to be killed.

During my work at the Swiss patent office, I met a man named Oppenheimer. Together we made weapons for World War II. I feared the possibility of the Nazis developing a Uranium Bomb. So I wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, urging watchfulness and quick action on the American side. I suggested that the United States prepare for its own atomic bomb research. This resulted in the Manhattan Project, in which the first two atomic bombs were developed in 1945.

I have developed many well known theories. In 1905, I published five major research papers in an important German physics journal. I received a doctorate on the first. My first paper provided a theory explaining the Brownian movement. It suggested that the zigzag motion of microscopic particles in motion was caused by the random motion of molecules of the suspension medium as they bounced against the suspended particles. The foundation for the quantum theory of light was laid out in a second paper. I proposed that light is composed of separate packs of energy, called quanta, that have some properties of both particles and waves. This also redefined the theory of light. My third paper contained the “special theory of relativity.” I showed that time and motion are relative to the observer. The fourth paper was a mathematical addition to the special theory of relativity. Here I presented my famous formula, E=mc^2

?, known as the energy mass equivalence. This means that the energy inherent in a mass equals the mass multiplied by the velocity of light squared. This shows that a small particle of matter is the equivalent of an enormous quantity of energy. In 1916 I published my general theory of relativity. It proposed that gravity is not a force, but a curved field in the space-time continuum that is created by the presence of mass.

In 1919 I achieved worldwide fame when the Royal Society of London announced that predictions made in my general theory of relativity were confirmed. I was also awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for physics. I spent all the rest of my live on an unsuccessful attempt to explain all the properties of matter and energy in a single mathematical formula. Four years before my death, I was involved in freak accident leaving my tongue exposed and unable to retract into my mouth. My tongue was stretched passed its elastic limit and nothing could help him. I died on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 in my sleep in Princeton hospital. By then I had established myself as a giant of science

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