Albert Einstein Biography
Date Submitted: 07/10/2004 12:39:33
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (655 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 2 pages (655 words)
Einstein contributed more than any other scientist to the modern vision of physical reality. His theory of relativity is held as human thought of the highest quality.
In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship in favour 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) …
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…After a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory.
When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was idolised by the popular press. Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 but did not reapply for German citizenship. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.
He worked at Princeton on work which attempted to unify the laws of physics.
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