Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in
Germany. His family owned a small
business that manufactured electric
machinery. The business failed and they left
Germany. Albert was fifteen
years old and he dropped out of school. When Albert
was five when he received
his first compass and he began to investigate the
world. Little did he know
that that compass would make him famous. By the age of
ten he becomes so
fascinated by the world of science he self-educates himself to
learn as much
as possible. Albert then went to a secondary school in
Switzerland.
Albert felt that the academics and education were not satisfying
enough so he
started cutting his classes and used all his free time to learn
about
physics. He had learned so much that his career had already taken off
without
him even realizing it yet. He became a substitute teacher and an actor
until
1902 when he secured a position as an examiner in a Swiss patent
office.
Not long after he married Mileva Maric and had two sons. 1905 was
the biggest
year for Einstein. It is called his "Miracle Year". He published
a
paper on the Brownian Motion and the seminal papers on his theory of
relativity.
He received his doctrine from the University of Zurich for a
theoretical
dissertation of molecules. He published three very important
papers to twentieth
century physics. The first paper on Brownian motion made
significant predictions
on the motion of particles that are randomly
distributed in a fluid, which were
later proved by an experiment The second
paper on Photoelectric effect presented
a hypothesis on the nature of light.
He proposed that under certain
circumstances light could be considered a
particles. He also hypothesized that
the energy carried by a photon is
depositional to the frequency of radiation.
The formula E= HU proves
this. Virtually no one accepted this theory but thought
differently when
Robert Andrews Millikan proved it. The third paper was on
electrodynamics of
moving bodies. It became known as the theory of relativity.
It explains
how matter and radiation interact with one another. With these well
thought
out papers Albert Einstein had solved the unanswered problems of the
world.
He wanted to learn more and began to try and answer the questions of
the
universe. In 1939 Einstein connected with other scientists and wrote a
letter to
the president, Franklin D. Roosevelt pointing out the possibility
of making an
atomic bomb. Albert signed the letter and the sent it off. That
is when the
first atomic bomb was ever made. Albert Einstein died 1n 1955 but
during his
lifetime he filled so many blanks about our universe. Albert
Einstein had a huge
positive impact on history. He changed the confused minds
of people and answered
their questions. He dedicated his life to science and
because of him our world
has started to come together. Without him scientists
would still be trying to
figure out the speed of light, relativity, elements
mass.... Etc. He educated
the world and encouraged more people to learn about
the natures of earth. The
biggest thing Albert Einstein did was he discovered
the connection between
energy and mass through the famous equation of E= MC2.
Einstein's famous speech
about this equation states that mass and energy are
both different
manifestations of the same thing. This equation helped the
world today and will
continue to do so. Einstein was a great scientist with a
brilliant mind.
Everyone uses the knowledge that Einstein created even if
we don't realize it.
We know the speed of light, which helps us, because
we can have more of it and
it follows along with the speed of sound and
relativity. Einstein has done many
good things and has helped our world
tremendously. If he did not dedicate his
life to science then all our minds
would be overflowing with the unanswered
questions of the world. Also because
of him our technology has improved. We have
telephones and computers and
televisions and all the electronic devices that are
here because of Albert
Einstein's theories. It was partly because of him that
the atomic bomb was
made and that has helped us with the wars. It has made us
come to realize
that someone's theory can be more powerful than thousands of
people.