Albert Einstein
Academic, Physicist, and Scientist
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Who's the greatest living genius?...is, and where it comes from. That said, anyone would be hard pushed to argue that Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein were not geniuses. But then, with the dear departed, it's easy to appreciate their formidable... In this article: Germaine Greer, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Daniel Barenboim |
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Wired Top Stories | 15 hours ago
Earth Destroyed By Large Hadron Collider; Martian Questioned
...inside their nuclei. 99% of LHC's production will consist on superfluid Quark condensates, a new state of matter, defined by Einstein, in which Quarks fusion together, creating hyper-dense, attractive tornado-like vortices with properties...
In this article: CERN, Quark, Haifa, Europe, Culpability, and High tech
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The Kentucky Kernel | 1 day ago
Speaker tells society to change for disabled, not vice versa
Posted by News Staff on November 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein and Magic Johnson are all people with disabilities, but all still contribute to society. This was one of the many points made Friday afternoon at a...
In this article: Kentucky, Cerebral palsy, Americans with Disabilities Act, Magic Johnson, and Tom Cruise
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Deseret News | 2 days ago
'Feminist bigotry'
...name and e-mail address are transmitted to the recipient. Otherwise, it is considered private information; see Privacy policy. Albert Einstein said, "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." The Deseret News...
In this article: E mail, Dog, University of Surrey, and Britain
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San Diego Union-Tribune | 3 days ago
Martin's bar fight: art vs. science
...of the bar and start to scribble. "It's a formula," Picasso scoffs when he finally gets a look at Einstein's paper and sees the famous equation. Einstein's cutting reply, as he gazes at Picasso's drawing: "So is yours. " Through all...
In this article: Steve Martin, Pablo Picasso, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Gaston, and Philosophy
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New York Post | 5 days ago
Bronx Beat
...at www.nyc.gov/sanitation. * 47-Aviles.incx 47at.incx 47fyi.incx * On Sun., Nov. 22, from 10 am to 3 pm, students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine will conduct a health fair that will offer free testing services and information...
In this article: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Self-help, Calcium chloride, Glaucoma, and Yeshiva University
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The Crimson White | 5 days ago
Our View: Support UA arts programs at UA
In Short: UA cultural performances are an experience to be embraced. Albert Einstein, a genius if there ever was one, commented once that, "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. " At the...
In this article: Recession, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, William Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Steve Martin
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NBC | November 13, 2009
Autograph collection spans century of American legends
...a self-addressed, stamped postcard asking them for a few thoughts and an autograph. John Wayne and Louis Armstrong responded, as did Albert Einstein, who answered a provocative question in 1943, even as he contemplated the destructive power of...
In this article: Dr. Seuss, Oscar, Robert Frost, Sandy Koufax, Walt Disney, and J.D. Salinger
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True/Slant | November 12, 2009
Einstein in Hollywood: The untold story
Until now, little has been known of Albert Einstein's brief career in Hollywood, where the great physicist and mathematician spent two frustrating years as a screenwriter in the 1930s. But the recent finding of a trunk full of his...
In this article: Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood, Walter Wanger, MGM, Fritz Lang, and F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Omaha World-Herald | November 12, 2009
Actor brings Einstein to life
World-Herald News Service Actor Duffy Hudson portrayed physicist Albert Einstein in several Council Bluffs performances. COUNCIL BLUFFS - It's not often that a student today can meet both Albert Einstein and Edgar Allan Poe.
In this article: Edgar Allan Poe, Physics, All rights reserved, Nobel Prize, Community of Christ Church, and St. Albert High School
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Wired Top Stories | November 10, 2009
Nov. 11, 1936: Einstein Gets Ice Cold
1936: Albert Einstein and fellow nuclear scientist Leo Szilard receive an American patent for a new kind of refrigerator that requires no electricity. The most famous physicist of the 20th century wasn't a Thomas Edison: The fridge would...
In this article: Butane, Leo Szilard, Boiling point, Oxford, Wired.com, University of Oldenburg, and Electrolux
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Albert Einstein (German: lang=German; English: IPA: /ˈælbɝt (-ət) ˈaɪnstaɪn/) (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which was intended to extend the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion and to provide a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include advances in the fields of relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.
Einstein published over 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works. In 1999 Time magazine named him the "Person of the Century". In wider culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.
- Birth Date:
- March 14, 1879
- Birthplace:
- Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, German Empire
- Death Date:
- April 18, 1955
- Place of Death:
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Religion:
- See main text
- Residence:
- Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA
- University Attended:
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- ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
- Field:
- Physics
- Known for:
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Special relativity
- Mass-energy equivalence
- General relativity
- Brownian motion
- Unified Field Theory
- Photoelectric effect
- Einstein field equations
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