| Name
/ Title |
ALBERT EINSTEIN |
| Date of
Birth |
March 14, 1879 |
| Date of
Death |
April 18, 1955 |
| Identity |
German-born theoretical physicist. |
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Date-wise Events / Works |
- April 11, 1905:
He revealed his famous theory of relativity.
- November 21, 1905: He
published his paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon
Its Energy Content?", which revealed the relationship
between energy and mass and led to the mass-energy
equivalence formula E = mc².
-
1917: He applied his general
theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe
as a whole.
- 1921:
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
"for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his
discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", which was pivotal
in establishing quantum theory.
- November 11, 1930: U.S.
Patent was awarded to him and Leó Szilárd for the
refrigerator. Their invention was not immediately put into
commercial production, and the patent was acquired by the
Swedish company Electrolux.
- December 05, 1932: He was
granted an American visa on this day.
- 1933:
He was visiting the United States when Adolf
Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where
he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
- 1940: He settled in the U.S., becoming its
citizen.
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| General |
- He is best know for developing the general
theory of relativity, which is regarded as one of the two pillars of
modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
- He is also best known for his mass–energy
equivalence formula E = mc2 (which is regarded as "the world's most
famous equation".
- He also investigated the thermal properties
of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light.
- On the eve of World War II, he sounded the
American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, that Germany might be
developing an atomic weapon.
- Ultimately, USA started extensive research
for developing the atomic weapons under the famous Manhattan
Project.
- He was never in favour of using the new
discovery of nuclear fission as a weapon.
- Einstein was affiliated with the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in
1955.
- Owing to his great intellectual achievements
and originality, the word "Einstein" has become synonymous with
"genius".
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