Friday, May 31, 2013

Albert Einstein: History's Nerd

Albert Einstein was considered the smartest man on the face of the earth.. But how much do you REALLY know about him? Continue reading to learn about his childhood, work and personal life, and much more.

                          What was his childhood like?
A young boy with short hair and a round face, wearing a white collar and large bow, with vest, coat, skirt and high boots. He is leaning against an ornate chair.In his early years, Einstein's mother was disturbed by how long it took him to learn how to talk and communicate with others. At right, there is a picture of him at only age 3.  He was very shy as a child, and his elementary teachers thought of him as a foolish dreamer. One teacher even asked him to drop out of his class! Young Einstein hated sports, they made him dizzy and tired. But what he lacked in sports he made up for in music. He could play Mozart sonatas on his violin, while usually accompanied by his loving mother. But he mainly like private games, such as building a house of cards. 

As for academics, he was intrigued by math and science. Max Talmud, a science teacher and  family friend would come to dinner every Thursday night and he would bring Albert science books. His uncle gave him math problems and he received a geometry book when he was 12.
   
                 
What's up with Einstein's Tongue?!
On Albert Einstein's 72nd birthday, photographer Arthur Sasse had been taking pictures of Albert most of the day. But for one of the last pictures, because he was so tired of people taking pictures of him all day, instead of smiling, he stuck out his tongue just to be silly. Albert liked that photo so much, he had the photographer make 9 copies of it for Albert's personal use. Weeks later, Albert signed one of the photos and gave it to some paparazzi to leave him alone. On June 19, 2009, that same photograph was sold at an action for $74,324, a new record for an Einstein picture! 
What did Einstein Study and do?? 
  Albert Einstein was mainly a German-born theoretical physicist. Known for his mass-energy equivalence formula, E=mc2, (which is known as the world's most famous equation) won Albert the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to theoretical physics and especially for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.".

  He was visiting  the U.S. when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
He settled in the U.S. in 1940, becoming an Official American Citizen.

    On the eye of the WWII, he alerted president Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany may be developing an atomic weapon and recommended the U.S. begin similar research; and this lead to what was eventually The Manhattan Project. Albert was in support of defending the Allied Forces, but largely denounced using the new discovery of Nuclear Fission as a weapon. 

  Albert was affiliated with The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey until his death in 1955. 

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