Albert Einstein

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, March 14, 1879. Six weeks later, the family pulled in Munich, where he started his education at the last-Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, he moved to Italy and continued his studies Albert and Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896, he joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich to be trained as a teacher of physics and mathematics. In 1901, when she got her diploma, which acquired Swiss nationality and the right, when he was able, a doctrine of the post, he took a position as technical assistant to the Swiss Patent Office. During the year 1905, he graduated doctor.

During his stay in the Patent Office and leisure, which generates most of its valuable work and in 1908, lectured at Berne. In 1909, he was an associate professor in Zurich, in 1911 a professor of theoretical physics in Prague, return flight back to Zurich in the coming years to fill a similar position. During the year 1914, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics and professor at the University of Berlin. He became a German citizen in 1914 1933, when he renounces citizenship, for political reasons, and emigrated to the Americas, with the position of professor of theoretical physics at Princeton *. He became a United States citizen in 1940 at the age of retirement relieved of his duties in 1945.

After World War II, Einstein was a key dimension of the movement of global governance, which he offered the chairmanship of the State of Israel, who went and worked with Dr. Chaim Weizmann and the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Einstein always have a clear vision of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He had a strategy for its own account and was able to assume the main steps on the road to his goal. He followed his most success as a simple Stepping stones to the next.

At the start of the scientific work, Einstein recognized the shortcomings of Newtonian mechanics and the theory of relativity was the outcome of the process, the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. It looked like the problems of classical statistical mechanics and problems, as well as quantum theory: This led to a statement from Brown motion of the molecules. He studied the thermal properties of light with low density of radiation and its observations, the keystone of the photon theory of light.

In the early days in Berlin, Einstein postulated that the correct interpretation of the theory of relativity must also provide a theory of gravitation in 1916, "published by the paper on the theory of general relativity. During this period, but focused on the problems of radiation theory and statistical mechanics.

In 1920, started the construction of Einstein theories of single material, although it continues to work on the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, who was involved in this kind of work in America. It contributed to the statistical mechanics and the development of quantum theory monatomic gas, and also has done work in the context of atomic transition opportunities and relativistic cosmology.

After his retirement, he continued, with the standardization of basic concepts of physics, on the other hand, geometrisation, for the majority of individuals.

Einstein, of course, research is very well, and particularly the most important projects special theory of relativity (1905), Relativity (in English translation, 1920 and 1950), The General Theory of Relativity (1916), with the perspective of the theory of motion Brown (1926) and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Among the scientific work and not on Zionism (1930), Why war? (1933), My Philosophy (1934) and Out of My Years Later (1950) is perhaps the most important.

Albert Einstein was awarded an honorary doctorate from the An science, medicine and philosophy in many European and American universities. During 1920 - has held conferences in Europe, the Americas and the Far East, who received scholarships or participation in all major scientific academies of the world. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, including the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925 and the Medal of the Franklin Franklin Institute, 1935.

Gift of Einstein led inevitably to his flat in a large intellectual loneliness and, for relaxation, music played an important role in his life. He married Mileva Maric in 1903, and had a daughter and two sons, the marriage was dissolved in 1919 and that same year he married his cousin Elsa Louvain Thal, death, in 1936. He died on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.