ALBERT

EINSTEIN
BIOGRAPHY
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN
PHYSICS 1921
 IN MEMORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN

• HE IS THE FATHER OF MODERN PHYSICS.

• HE WAS BORN IN ULM, GERMAN EMPIRE ON MARCH 14,
OF 1879.
• HIS FATHER´S NAME HERMANN EINSTEIN AND HER
MOTHER´S NAME WAS PAULINE KOCH.
• HE WAS BORN INTO A JEWISH FAMILY.
 • 1879 BORN IN THE GERMAN CITY OF ULM.
• 1901 ACQUIRED SWISS NATIONALITY.
• 1902 ENTER AS AN OFFICIAL IN THE FEDERAL PATENT
OFFICE IN BERN.
• 1903 HE MARRIED OF MILEVA MARIC.
• 1905 HE OBTAINED HIS DOCTOR DEGREE.
• 1909 HE BECAME PROFESSOR EXTRAORDINARY AT
ZURICH.
CHRONOLOGY • 1916 GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
AND • 1921 THE NOBEL PRIZE OF PHYSICS.
PUBLICATIONS • 1933 HE RENOUNCED HIS CITIZENSHIP FOR POLITICAL
REASONS AND EMIGRATED TO AMERICA.
• 1940 HE BECAME A UNITED OF STATES CITIZEN.
• 1945 HE RETIRED OF PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL
PHYSICS AT PRINCETON.
• 1955 DIED IN PRINCETON, N.J. USA.
EINSTEIN AND MILEVA FIRST MARRIED EINSTEIN AND ELSA SECOND MARRIED

HE MARRIED MILEVA MARIC IN 1903 AND THEY HAVE A DAUGHTER AND TWO SONS; THEIR
MARRIAGE WAS DISSOLVED IN 1919 AND IN THE SAME YEAR HE MARRIED HIS COUSIN, ELSA
LOWENTHAL, WHO DIED IN 1936.
HE GAINED NUMEROUS AWARDS IN RECOGNITION OF HIS WORK,
INCLUDING THE COPLEY MEDAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON IN
1925 AND THE FRANKLIN MEDAL OF THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE IN 1935.

HE WAS BECOME THE MOST CELEBRATED SCIENTIST OF THE

TWENTIETH CENTUTY.

HE ALSO BECOME WELL KNOWN AS HUMANITARIAN, SPEAKING OUT

AGAINST NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

EINSTEIN IS ONE OF THE UNDISPUTED GENIUS OF THE TWENTIETH

CENTURY, BUT, HIS EARLY TEACHERS FOUND HIM DIM AND SLOW TO
LEARN.

SCHOOL FAILED ME, AND I FAILED THE SCHOOL. IT BORED ME. THE TEACHERS
BEHAVED LIKE FELDWEBEL (SERGEANTS). I WANTED TO LEARN WHAT I WANTED
TO KNOW, BUT THEY WANTED ME TO LEARN FOR THE EXAM.(EINSTEIN AND THE
POET. 1983)
SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY
THE CORE OF HIS THEORY OF RELATIVITY IS THAT:

“MOVEMENT CAN ONLY BE DETECTED AND MEASURED AS RELATIVE

MOVEMENT; THE CHANCE OF POSITION OF ONE BODY IN RESPECT TO
ANOTHER.”

IT WAS REVOLUCIONARY DUE TO, PREVIOSLY PEOPLE HAD THOUGHT TIME

AND DISTANCE ARE ABSOLUTES. BUT, EINSTEIN PROVED THIS NOT TO BE
TRUE.

THIS LEAD TO EINSTEIN´S FAMOUS EQUATION:

2
E=MC WHERE: E = ENERGY, M= MASS AND C = SPEED OF LIGHT.
PHRASES:
“GRAVITATION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PEOPLE FALLING IN LOVE”.

“SCIENCE WITHOUT RELIGION IS LAME, RELIGION WITHOUT SCIENCE IS BLIND”.

“HAD I KNOWN THAT THE GERMANS WOULD NOT SUCCEED IN PRODUCING AN

ATOMIC BOMB, I WOULD NOT HAVE LIFTED A FINGER”.

“I DON´T KNOW HOW THE THIRD WORLD WAR WILL BE FOUGTH, BUT I CAN TELL
YOU WHAT THEY WILL USE IN THE FOURTH—ROCKS”

EINSTEIN DIED IN 1955, AT HIS REQUEST HIS BRAIN AND VITAL ORGANS WERE
REMOVED FOR SCIENTIFIC STUDY.