Albert Einstein - Great Scientist | Short Biography of Albert Einstein

 Albert Einstein - Great Scientist

Albert Einstein - Great Scientist | Short Biography of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on 14 March, 1879 in the German city of Ulm, without any indication that he was destined for greatness. His mother thought Albert was a freak because his head seemed much too large. When Albert learnt to speak he would utter everything twice. His playmates called him 'Brother Boring because he did not know what to do with them so he played all by himself much of the time. His headmaster thought that Einstein would never be successful in anything but Einstein proved him wrong, Einstein began to play the violin at the age of six; later he became a gifted amateur violinist, maintaining his skill throughout his life.

Albert Einstein - Great Scientist | Short Biography of Albert Einstein

Einstein also scored good marks in almost all the subjects in school but he hated the school's regimentation and so often clashed with his teachers. Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics. He left school for good because of its regimented atmosphere and decided to study at a university in Zurich because Switzerland was considered more liberal than Munich. There he became interested in a fellow student, Mileva Marie, a young Serb. They shared a common interest in philistines' those people in his family and at the university with whom he was constantly at odds. For sometime Albert could not marry Mileva because his mother was against this marriage as Mileva's intelligence bothered her. She thought Mileva was a book like Albert. 

Albert Einstein - Great Scientist | Short Biography of Albert Einstein

Only in 1903 could Mileva and Einstein finally get married but they divorced in 1919, after an unhappy married life. In 1900, Albert after graduation, worked as a teaching assistant, gave private lessons and finally secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. His job was to assess other people's inventions but he secretly developed his own ideas. He called his desk drawer at work, jokingly as the "bureau of theoretical physics". He published his paper on 'Special Theory of Relativity" according to which time and distance are not absolute. The formula derived was E = mc2 in which E stands for energy, m for mass and c for the speed of light in a vacuum (about 300,000 km/s)In 1915, he published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation to gravity. 

Albert Einstein - Great Scientist | Short Biography of Albert Einstein

A solar eclipse in 1919 proved it was accurate. Einstein had accurately calculated in advance the extent to which light would be deflected through the sun's gravitational field. Einstein was awarded a Nobel prize for Physics in 1921. The discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin made the world fearful of the Nazi's building an atomic bomb. He wrote a letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning him about the danger of a nuclear bomb. The dropping of nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima deeply shook Einstein. He worked for ending of arms build up in the world and even promoted the idea of a World Government to the UN. He used his popularity and connections for establishing world visionary peace and democracy. Einstein died at the age of 76, in 1955. He was celebrated as a and a world citizen.