Albert Einstein was born in Germany, Ulm(14 March 1879 ) and died in

U.S. New Jersey ( 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher

and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and
iconic scientists and intellectuals of all time. Einstein is often regarded as
the father of modern physics. He 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 was a Jewish child and was
really slow and didn’t wish to talk a lot. His first interest in science was
shown when he had 5 years, his father showed him a simple pocket
compass. What interested young Einstein was whichever the case was
turned, the needle always pointed in the same direction. He thought there
must be some force in what was presumed empty space that acted on the
compass. As a young man he excelled in math and science , but was too
bored on the other classes like history and geography and didn’t wish to
study. Albert Einstein could not find work after he graduated from the
college because none of the professors wanted to recommend him and
initially had to work as a technical assistant with the Swiss Patent
Office.He also married Mileva Maric a colleague and had 2 children with
her. His curiosity for light was the key to his great discoveries. Einstein
always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the
determination to solve them. Einstein explained the photoelectric effect,
by which certain metals emit electrons when illuminated by light with a
given frequency, and also that the light had electromagnetic qualities.
Einstein's theory, and his subsequent elaboration of it, formed the basis
for much of quantum mechanics. His second most famous theory was the
theory of relativity. He made two hypothesis that the laws of physics had
to have the same form in any frame of reference. . As a second
fundamental hypothesis, Einstein assumed that the speed of light
remained constant in all frames of reference. As a consequence of his
theory Einstein recovered the phenomenon of time dilatation, wherein
time, analogous to length and mass, is a function of the velocity of a
frame of reference.He came to this conclusion by the following statement:
time can beat at different rates throughout the universe, depending on
how fast you moved. Imagine clocks scattered at different points in space,
each one announcing a different time, each one ticking at a different rate.
One second on Earth was not the same length as one second on the moon
or one second on Jupiter. In fact, the faster you moved, the more time
slowed down. This meant that events that were simultaneous in one frame
were not necessarily simultaneous in another frame.After this startling
discovery he was given a job as a professor in Zurich as a Physics teacher,
and also divorced from Mileva and re-married Elsa his cousin. Later on he
was appointed as a professor in Berlin. In 1907 he proposed that if mass
were equivalent to energy, then the principle of equivalence required that
gravitational mass would interact with the apparent mass of
electromagnetic radiation, which includes light. One of Einstein's great
insights was to realize that matter and energy are really different forms of
the same thing. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter.
This theory is one of the most important for mankind, and the base for
modern physics. Since the speed of light was a fantastically large number,
and its square was even larger, this meant that even a tiny amount of
matter could release a fabulous amount of energy. A few teaspoons of
matter, for example, has the energy of several hydrogen bombs. In fact, a
piece of matter the size of a house might be enough to crack the Earth in
half. This theory also made Nuclear fusion available. Nuclear fusion is
what powers a modern nuclear warhead, or what happens in the Atomic
bomb, Albert Einstein was able to see where an understanding of this
formula would lead. Before the II World War began he was evacuated out
of Germany and travelled to the USA. Although peaceful by nature and
politics, he helped write a letter to the President of the United States,
urging him to fund research into the development of an atomic bomb ...
before the Nazis or Japan developed their own first. The result was the
Manhatten Project, which did in fact produce the first tangible evidence of
... the atomic bomb! Einstein was proposed for the president of
Israel but he refused. He was also very famous for his great thoughts. One
of them being : ,,Imagination is more important than knowledge. For
knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while
imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know
and understand”. He died on the age of 76 , brining mankind something to
think about.