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Albert Einstein - Term Papers

Albert Einstein

March 14 1879 - April 18 1955 Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA.
was a very famous Scientist, he was mostly famous for his
theory of Relativity. In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and Einstein
decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship in favor of Swiss. In
1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for
a diploma as an electrical engineer at Zurich. After attending secondary
school at Aarau, Einstein returned (1896) to the Zurich Polytechnic,
graduating (1900) as a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics.

He worked at the patent office in Bern from 1902 to 1909 and while there
he completed an astonishing range of ...

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Gesellschaft in Berlin. From this time he never taught a
university courses. Einstein remained on the staff at Berlin until 1933, from
which time until his death he held a research position at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton.

In the first of three papers (1905) Einstein examined the phenomenon
discovered by Max Planck, according to which electromagnetic energy seemed to be
emitted from radiating objects in discrete quantities. The energy of these
quanta was directly proportional to the frequency of the radiation. This seemed
at odds with the classical electromagnetic theory, based on Maxwell's equations
and the laws of thermodynamics which assumed that electromagnetic energy
consisted of waves which could contain any small amount of energy. Einstein used
Planck's quantum hypothesis to describe the electromagnetic radiation of light.

Einstein's second 1905 paper proposed what is today called the special
theory of relativity. He based his new theory on a ...

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