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Albert Einstein - Term Papers

Albert Einstein

was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized and reshaped scientific thinking in the modern world. By general consent he is acknowledged as the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived.
Best known as the creator of the Theory of Relativity, Einstein would still rank among the greatest scientists for his part in the idea of quantum mechanics, for his contribution to statistical physics, and for his role as a philosopher of science and as a humanitarian. Indeed, his 1921 Nobel Prize was awarded not for Relativity, but for his theory of the Photoelectric Effect.
was born on March 14, 1879, to middle-class Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany. He ...

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6 to 13, he also had religious education at home where he was taught Judaism. Two years later he entered the Luitpold Gymnasium and after this his religious education was given at school. He studied mathematics, mostly calculus, beginning around 1891.
In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan but Einstein remained in Munich. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896 and was to be stateless for a number of years. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899, and then got it in 1901.
The year 1905 saw a great flowering of Einstein's creativity, and with it a turning point in the history of physics. Space and time would never again be the same, Theory Relativity. The quantum was made respectable, the Photoelectric effect. The atom likewise, the Brownian motion. And mass was recognized as a form of ...

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Added: 9/8/2005 05:09:30 AM
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