Albert+Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg in the German Empire. He lived to be 76 when he died on April 18, 1955. Einstein is probably one of the most well-known scientists in the world. His contributions include: special and general theories of relativity, the found of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, predicition of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the Schrodinger equation, and the big boy-the atomic bomb. Growing up, Einstein left his family behind when they moved so that he could continue his studies at the Luitpold Gymnasium. His father wanted him to pursue electrical engineering, but Eistein didn't like the school for its regiment and teaching method (sound familiar?). Einstein was also a ladies man. He married the only female that went to his school. This was Mileva Maric. What was interesting about Einstein's life was that he grew up as a Jew in a time period that was very anti-semetic against Judaism. Also, he did not speak until he was 8-years-old.

While Einstein had a number of contributions to science, his biggest was the work and development of the atom bomb from 1939-1945. What the atom bomb did was seperate the nucleus of an atom, releasing massive amounts of energy. The effects of the atom bomb were devastating and Einstein later regreted his work with it. The splitting of the atom gave a new insight to the atom itself by showing how much energy can be harneshed with a single atom.

The energy of the atom bomb