Albert Einstein

By david343

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    Albert Einstein was born in the Bavarian city of Ulm on March 14, 1879. He was the firstborn son of Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch, Jews both, whose families came from Swabia. The following year they moved to Munich, where the father was established, along with his brother Jakob, as a merchant in the electrotechnical news of the time.

  • 1884

    1884 Little Albert was a quiet and self-absorbed child, and had a slow intellectual development. Einstein himself attributed to that slowness the fact of having been the only person to elaborate a theory like that of relativity: "a normal adult does not worry about the problems posed by space and time, since he considers that everything there is that know about it already knows him from his early childhood.

  • 1894

    In 1894, economic difficulties caused the family (increased since 1881 with the birth of a daughter, Maya) to move to Milan; Einstein stayed in Munich to finish high school, meeting with his parents the following year.

  • 1896

    In the fall of 1896 he began his higher studies at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, where he was a student of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, who later generalized the four-dimensional formalism introduced by the theories of his former student.

  • 1902

    On June 23, 1902, Albert Einstein began to serve in the Confederal Intellectual Property Office of Bern, where he worked until 1909.

  • 1903

    In 1903 he married Mileva Maric, a former student companion in Zurich, with whom he had two children: Hans Albert and Eduard, born respectively in 1904 and 1910. In 1919 they divorced, and Einstein married again with his cousin Elsa.

  • 1905

    During 1905, he published five papers in the Annalen der Physik: the first of them earned him the degree of doctor by the University of Zurich, and the remaining four would end up imposing a radical change in the image that science offers the universe. Of these four, the first provided a theoretical explanation in statistical terms of the Brownian movement (so named in honor of its discoverer, Robert Brown), and the second gave an interpretation of the photoelectric effect

  • 1914

    The outbreak of World War I forced him to separate from his family (then vacationing in Switzerland), who did not return to meet him. Against the generalized feeling of the Berlin academic community, Einstein manifested himself at that time openly anti-war, influenced in his attitudes by the pacifist doctrines of Romain Rolland.

  • 1916

    In the scientific field, its activity was focused, between 1914 and 1916, on the improvement of the general theory of relativity, based on the postulate that gravity is not a force but a field created by the presence of a mass in the space-time continuum

  • 1921

    the public recognition of the true scope of his theories took in arriving; The Nobel Prize for Physics, which he received in 1921, was granted exclusively "for his work on the Brownian movement and its interpretation of the photoelectric effect."

  • 1933

    This investigation, which occupied the rest of his life, proved unsuccessful and eventually led to estrangement from the rest of the scientific community. From 1933, with Hitler's access to power, his loneliness was aggravated by the need to renounce German citizenship and move to the United States; Einstein spent the last twenty-five years of his life at the Institute of Higher Studies in Princeton, New Jersey.

  • 1939

    In 1939, at the urging of physicists Leo Szilard and Eugene Paul Wigner, and convinced of the possibility that the Germans were in a position to make an atomic bomb, he approached President Roosevelt urging him to undertake a research program on atomic energy.

  • 1940

    After the explosions of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put an end to the Second World War, Einstein joined the scientists who were looking for ways to prevent the future use of the bomb and proposed the formation of a world government from the embryo constituted by the United Nations

  • 1950

    Albert Einstein remains a mythical figure of our time; more, even, of what came to be in life, if one takes into account that his photograph of him exhibiting an unusual gesture of mockery (sticking his tongue out in a comical and irreverent expression) has been elevated to the dignity of an icon domestic after being turned into a poster as usual as those of the idols of the song and the stars of Hollywood.

  • 1995

    Albert Eistein died on April 18, 1995 in New Jersey