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Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
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Image above:
From a postcard of
Albert Einstein, photo taken around 1931.
Dover Publ. 1993.
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Albert
Einstein in the Patent Office, 1905
American Friends of the Hebrew
University
One of the greatest physicists of all
time, Albert became famous for
the equation E = mc². ( What
in the world is E = mc²?)
Albert's theories of
relativity revolutionized the world. ( What
in the world is the theory of relativity?) He was born in Germany
and died in the US.
In 1921, Albert was awarded the
Nobel
Prize "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for
his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." ( What
in the world is the photoelectric effect?)
Albert also loved music and played
the violin ( What
in the world is a violin?)
Albert with his fiddle
Albert Einstein became a Swiss citizen in 1900 and married
Mileva
Maric in 1903. He moved to Berlin in 1914 of all years. Any
children? Yes.
One daughter and two sons. Hans Albert and
Edward. In 1919 divorce from Mileva
and marriage to
Cousin Elsa Löwenthal.
albert on a Swedish Stamp
1981
On August 22, 1930, Albert Einstein delivered his
Wonders of Science speech in Berlin, Germany, at the opening
of the Seventh German Radio and Audio Show. The Germans call it the
Berliner Funkausstellung.
Albert Einstein at the
Funkausstellung in Berlin 1930
When
Adolf
Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, Einstein left the country
and settled in the U.S. Now all the the Nazis could do to him was confiscating
his sailboat in Berlin, which they did. They
could be so mean.
Albert Einstein
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