... jobs. In 1901 Mileva was pregnant by Albert, and Albert was held back from getting a job as a teacher because of troubles with his old physics teacher. In 1902, Mileva had a daughter that was given up for adoption before Einstein could even see her. That same year, Einstein's dad died ... published, at the age of 26, four papers in the journal Annalen der Physik. These four papers would alter the course of twentieth-century physics. The first paper dealt with the random thermal motions of molecules in colloidal solutions, called Brownian motion. This was first noted in 1827 by ... the p...

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... October 1896 he received his school certificate and shortly thereafter enrolled at the Eidgenossische Polytechnische Schule with the goal of becoming a teacher in Mathematics and Physics. Einstein, being an average student, finished his studies with a diploma degree in July 1900. He then applied, without success, for assistantships at ... Winterthur and Schaffhausen. Afterwards he moved to the Swiss capital Bern. In order to make a living, he gave private lessons in mathematics and physics. From 1902 to 1909 Einstein worked as an examiner, which allowed him more free time to work on thi...

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... light. Einstein's second paper proposed what is today called the Special Theory of Relativity. He based his theory on a reinterpretation of the original principle of relativity; namely the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second basic hypothesis, Einstein assumed that the speed of light remained constant in all frames of reference. Later ... of Bern after he submitted his Habilitation thesis Consequences for the constitution of radiation following from the energy distribution law of black bodies. The following year he became professor of physics ...

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... have let him study for a diploma as an electrical engineer in Zurich. After failing this exam he attended secondary school at Arau where he graduated as a teacher of mathematics and physics. Einstein became a teacher of mathematics at the technical high school in Winterthur. He was later appointed a third class technical expert in the patent office, in Bern. During this time he ... produced a large about of theoretical physics publications, even though he did not have contact with scientific literature or colleagues. He earned a doctoral degree from the University of Zurich in 1905, whe...

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... . Failing the entrance exam to ETH, he went to secondary school at Aurau. He was going to use to this route to enter ETH in Zurich. Einstein earned a Ph.D. in physics. Einstein married Mileva Maric a girl he knew in his student days in Zurich. They settled down in an apartment in Bern. They had two sons, but were divorced later. He ... a professor of theoretical physic at the University of Zurich, 1909-1911, and at the University of Prague, 1911-1913. Einstein was professor physics at the University of Berlin in 1914. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his physics investigations ...

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... less myriad's of them, and, therefore, can never make predictions about the future, that will be completely accurate in every detail." "This marked a fundamental change in the world view of physics. It revealed that not only matter and energy but knowledge itself is quantized. "A few physicists became so frustrated that they quit science altogether." "It was turmoil and confusion and not ... calm assurance that marked the growth of the mind, and when the dust began to clear, quantum physics emerged as not only a vital and rapidly developing field of science, but as one of the greatest i...

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... four years. When he graduated, he was named the greatest mathematician the school ever had. Albert Einstein was a geneuis, and the discoverer of the formula E=M(c), possibly the most well known physics equation. He was also responsible for "E=(HV) - W". BUt his most well known achievement was that of the harnessing of the atom, the discovery of nuclear fusion. Using his new found ... equations, he devised the first atom bomb, which releases massive amouts of energy by the conversion of mass when radioactive atoms are split. His discoverys in the field of physics, and most importantly, d...

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... , and with his birth the family moved to Prague where Albert was given a full professorship at the German University. He became the youngest to be invited to the first world's physics conference. In 1914 things suddenly began to go downward for Albert, and he and his wife got divorced. During this time period WW1 began. But then after a slow year, in ... , which proved his theory true. His popularity went off the charts, and he became known as the nest Newton. In 1922 he received the Nobel Prize for his work in physics. At the age of 52 Einstein was at the height of his fame. He was ident...

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... speed of light. Einstein went on to teach at several universities and give lectures after his papers were published. In 1922 he went to Sweden to accept a Nobel Prize in physics for his photoelectric study in 1905. In 1932, the Nazi party was formed with Adolph Hitler as their leader. Hitler hated Jews and persecuted them. Einstein would have been killed ... appeared on the first Nazi list of people stripped of their citizenship. In 1939 World War II began, with Germany invading Poland. The U.S. was concerned about a new development in atomic physics. When Einstein learned of this, he k...

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... explosion sent the particles moving outwards, which then cooled, condensed, and formed the universe, as we know it. The early events, including the explosion itself, are based on quantum physics (the physics of atoms and their constitutes) and remain hypothetical. Einstein provided the foundations for this theory when he proposed his "Special Theory of Relativity", in which he suggested that mass and ... ...

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... paper Einstein wrote proposed the special theory of relativity. Einstein based his special theory of relativity on a reinterpretation of the classical principal of relativity, which states that the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. One of the fundamental parts of Einstein's theory was that he assumed that the speed of light remained constant ... ...

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... married Maria Maric. He had three children, 2 boys and one girl. Liserl was given up to adoption in 1902. In 1905 Einstein published various papers in the German Yearbook of Physics, three of them became very famous (probably because they were so complicated that other scientist were astonished at his capacity to think) One of them is probably the most famous ... ...

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... of building a consistent, fully quantum description of fields and the creation and annihilation of quantum particles. Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, and Richard Feynman received the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for its development, although each developed the theory in the late 1940s entirely independent of the other two. They each developed the theory by refining the discovery made by P.A.M. Dirac ... ...

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... standard is currently used by all scientists, and has a margin of error of "one-millionth of a second per year". 4) Albert Einstein is one of the two most famous names in physics history. He and Newton had several theories, but Einstein proved many of Newton's theories to be incorrect. For example Einstein's "special theory of relativity", which says that "measurements of time ... ...

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... to music, and he became a superb violinist. My mother also introduced me to music, and I am a fairly good singer. Einstein also excelled in mathematics; by age 11 he was studying Physics at a university level. I am currently taking accelerated chemistry and at a young age I was reading about chemistry, other sciences, and literature. Albert was born in Ulm, Germany in 1905. Several of ... ...

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... thought regarding time. One is that time is absolute and fixed in the universe and that it occurs even without the presence of an observer. This view prevails for Newtonian physics as well as for the realm of quantum mechanics. The other view, which is part of Einstein's theory of relativity, is that time is different for each observer; that time ... ...

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... . His mother moved to Berlin to spend her last days with Albert. He gets married in 1919 to his cosin Elsa. In 1922 he is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. A lot of people thought he was a freak, they didn't think he knew what he was talking about. Many people tried to put Albert in Mental Institions. Everyone thought he was ... ...

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... knowledge. In early October 1896 he received his diploma and shortly after he enrolled at the EidgenÖssische Polytechnische Schule with the goal of becoming a teacher in Mathematics and Physics. Albert Einstein has been called the most brilliant person since Newton. This may be because of his "Theory of Relativity," which explained one of the most famous equation E=mc; or ... ...

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