Born March 14,1879 in Ulm, Germany to a family who owned a small electro-technical factory.
Einstein received above average marks in mathematics, traveled and read classical works on physics before he was 24 when he wrote his first paper on relativity.
Banned by Nazi authorities he was forced to leave his native Germany and
expatriated to the United States where he became a Professor at Princeton University in 1933.
Einstein was married to Mileva Maric in 1903. He had four children: Hans Albert, and xx grandchildren.
His work in physics took on a such a mythic quality (E=mc^2) that
during his life the public figure of Einstein became an eccentric celebrity with wild hair who sailed and played the violin. Forty years after his death the stereotype lives on as the mad scientist in popular culture.
Work methods & philosophy are less well-known outside of scientific circles
but he is thought of today as a "realist", that is, he believed "that the moon is there even when I can't see it".*
Einstein developed conceptual tools that contributed greatly to tranform (for better or worse) the Industrial Age into the Atomic and now the Information Age. Chief among them that the tool used to investigate changes the process or object of the investigation
That forces of gravitation affect all particles including light and that light behaves as both a particle and a wave. By considering light as a constant, that it moves with a constant velocity .........
Born March 14,1879 in Ulm, Germany to a family who owned a small electro-technical factory.