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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and went on to become a renowned physicist. He developed the theories of special and general relativity which revolutionized physics. Some of his most important works included his 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, which established light as both a wave and particle, and his explanation of Brownian motion which provided evidence for the atomic theory of matter. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He later immigrated to the United States and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and went on to become a renowned physicist. He developed the theories of special and general relativity which revolutionized physics. Some of his most important works included his 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, which established light as both a wave and particle, and his explanation of Brownian motion which provided evidence for the atomic theory of matter. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He later immigrated to the United States and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and went on to become a renowned physicist. He developed the theories of special and general relativity which revolutionized physics. Some of his most important works included his 1905 paper explaining the photoelectric effect, which established light as both a wave and particle, and his explanation of Brownian motion which provided evidence for the atomic theory of matter. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. He later immigrated to the United States and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

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    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was born in the Bavarian city of Ulm on March 14, 1879. He was
    the eldest son of Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch, both Jews whose families
    came from Swabia. The following year they moved to Munich, where his father
    was established, along with his brother Jakob, as a trader in electrotechnical
    innovations of the time.
    In 1894, the economic difficulties caused family (increased since 1881 with the
    birth of a daughter, Maya) moved to Milan; Einstein remained in Munich to
    finish high school, meeting with parents the following year. In the fall of 1896
    he began his studies at the Technische Hochschule Zurich Eidgenossische,
    where he was student of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, who later
    generalized the four-dimensional formalism introduced by the theories of his
    former student.
    The June 23, 1902, Albert Einstein began to serve in the Confederal Bureau of
    Intellectual Property in Bern, where he worked until 1909. In 1903 he married
    Mileva Maric, a former fellow student in Zurich, with whom he had two sons
    Hans Albert and Eduard, born respectively in 1904 and 1910. in 1919 they
    divorced and remarried Einstein with his cousin Elsa.
    Einstein effort immediately placed him among the most eminent of European
    physicists, but the public recognition of the true extent of his theories came
    quickly; the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he received in 1921, was granted

    exclusively "for his work on Brownian motion and its interpretation of the
    photoelectric effect." In 1909 he began his career as a university lecturer in
    Zurich, moving to Prague and returning back to Zurich in 1912 to become a
    professor of the Polytechnic, where he had done his studies.
    In 1914 he went to Berlin as a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
    The outbreak of the First World War forced him to leave his family (then Rentals
    Switzerland), who did not return to meet him. Against the general feeling of the
    Berlin academic community, Einstein said that time openly antiwar, influenced
    their attitudes pacifist doctrines of Romain Rolland.
    The April 16, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by a
    ruptured aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, which had previously been
    reinforced surgically by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948. Einstein refused surgery,
    saying: "I want to go when I want to. it is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I've
    done my part, it's time to go. I'll do it in style. " He died in Princeton Hospital
    early on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 years. On the table was the draft of the
    speech in front of millions of Israelis for the seventh anniversary of Israel's
    independence would never come to utter, and began: "Today I speak to you not
    as an American citizen, nor a Jew, but as being human".

    The eclipse experiment

    This great researcher says that light is not always moved in a straight line, as
    argued before, it was also subject to the force of gravity. This idea could be
    confirmed by an experiment measuring the light during an eclipse would see
    how it affected the mass of the Sun and the light from the star, taking
    advantage of this moment of darkness.
    The experiment to confirm the curvature could not be carried out until the next
    solar eclipse. In 1919, the British astronomer moved with his team of cameras
    to Brazil. His snapshots are reveleron in London amid great expectation.
    A meeting at the Royal Society allowed the world to publicize the success of
    the experiment. The Swiss physicist had completely accurate their forecasts,
    since the photograph confirmed how light was also attracted by solar gravity.
    To be a great scientist but limited to a community of insiders, Einstein went on
    to become a scientist of boundless fame. He had overthrown Newton and his
    feat became cover for weeks in major newspapers around the world. Albert
    Einstein had become a star.

    Photoelectric effect

    A diagram illustrating the emission of electrons from a metal plate, requiring


    energy which is absorbed a photon.
    The first article of 1905 A heuristic point of view was entitled on production and
    transformation of light. It Einstein proposed the idea of "quantum" of light (now
    called photons) and showed how you could use this concept to explain the
    photoelectric effect.
    The theory of light quanta was a strong indication of wave-particle duality and
    that physical systems can display both wave and corpuscular properties. This
    article was one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. A full explanation of
    the photoelectric effect could only be made when quantum theory was more
    advanced. For this work, and for his contributions to theoretical physics,
    Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

    Brownian motion
    The article on Brownian motion, the fourth degree of importance, is closely
    related with the article on molecular theory. This is a piece of elaborate
    statistical mechanics, remarkable by the fact that Einstein had not heard of
    measurements Brown 1820s until the end of the same year (1905); So wrote
    this article titling it "On the theory of Brownian motion"

    The article explained the phenomenon using the statistics of the thermal
    motion of individual atoms in a fluid. Brownian movement had baffled scientists
    since its discovery a few decades ago. Einstein's explanation provided a
    incontestable experimental evidence about the existence of atoms. The article
    also provided a strong impetus to statistical mechanics and the kinetic theory
    of fluids, two fields that then remained controversial.
    Prior to this work the atoms are considered a useful concept in physics and
    chemistry, but contrary to what the legend, most contemporary physicists
    already believed in atomic theory and statistical mechanics developed by
    Boltzmann, Maxwell and Gibbs ; moreover they had already done enough good
    estimates of the radii of the core and the number of Avogadro. Einstein's paper
    on atomic movement gave experimentalists a simple way to count atoms by
    looking through a microscope ordinario.
    Wilhelm Ostwald, one of the leaders of the anti-nuclear school, told Arnold
    Sommerfeld that had been transformed into a believer in atoms by Einstein's
    explanation of Brownian motion.

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