Albert Einstein
- 1. Albert Einstein A GERMAN - BOR N TH EOR ETIC A L PH YSIC IST
- 2. ∙Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, and died on April 18, 1955 in the USA of an aneurysm.
- 3. Early years and education ∙ Albert Einstein was born in Ulm. His parents, secular Ashkenazi Jews, were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein's father and his uncle Jakob founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current. Albert attended a Catholic elementary school in Munich from the age of five. When he was eight, he was transferred to the Luitpold-Gymnasium (now known as the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium), where he received advanced primary and then secondary school education.
- 4. Einstein excelled at physics and mathematics from an early age, and soon acquired the mathematical expertise normally only found in a child several years his senior. He began teaching himself algebra, calculus and Euclidean geometry when he was twelve; he made such rapid progress that he discovered an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem before his thirteenth birthday. A family tutor, Max Talmud, said that only a short time after he had given the twelve year old Einstein a geometry textbook, the boy "had worked through the whole book. He thereupon devoted himself to higher mathematics ... Soon the flight of his mathematical genius was so high I could not follow”. At thirteen, when his range of enthusiasms had broadened to include music and philosophy, Einstein was introduced to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant became his favorite philosopher; according to his tutor, "At the time he was still a child, only thirteen years old, yet Kant's works, incomprehensible to ordinary mortals, seemed to be clear to him.”
- 5. Cover image of the PhD dissertation of Albert Einstein defended in 1905
- 6. ∙ Regarded as the most influential physicist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein was a scientist who developed the general and special theory of relativity. In recognition of his explanation of the photoelectric effect, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
- 7. ∙Albert Einstein published over 450 papers, including over 300 scientific ones.
- 8. Before becoming a famous scientist, he worked as a clerk in the Patent Office. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921 for discovering the laws of the photoelectric phenomenon and for his work in theoretical physics.
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