Albert Einstein
0A0A ny list of the greatest thinkers in history will contain the name of the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein.
0 His theories of relativity led to entirely new ways of thinking about time, space, matter, energy, and gravity. 0 Einstein`s work led to such scientific advances as the control of atomic energy and to some of the investigations of space.
0 Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879, of Jewish parents. 0 He was shy and curious child. Ulm, Germany
0 He attended a Munich elementary school where he showed an interest in science and mathematics but did poorly in other areas of study. 0 He finished high school and Technical College in Switzerland.
0 In 1905, at the age of 26, he published five major research papers in an important German physics journal. 0 He received doctorate for the first paper.
0 Publication of the next four papers forever changed mankind`s view of the universe. 0 One of his papers laid the foundation for the photon, or quantum, theory of light. Hjgfj,gh,kg,
0 In his works Einstein showed that time and motion are relative to the observer, if the speed of light is constant and natural laws are the same everywhere in the universe.
0 Television and other inventions are practical applications of Einstein`s discoveries.
0 His fourth paper was a mathematical addition to the special theory of relativity. 0 In 1916 Einstein published his general theory of relativity. Fjhf,kjkgj fjyf
0 World-wide fame came to him in 1919 when the Royal Society of London announced that his general theory of relativity had been confirmed.
0 Einstein died in Princeton, on April 18, 1955.