A Truly Beautiful Mind

Einstein Date of Birth

14 March 1879

Einstein Birth CIty

Ulm

Age which he started speaking

At two and a half he still did not speak and when he finally did he uttered every word twice

Einsteins nickname

Brother Boring

Einsteins sister name

Maja Einstein

Einsteins reaction to newborn sister

Fine but where are her wheels as he was obsessed with mechanical toys.

What id his headmaster tell his father

It would not matter what Einstein chose as a profession as he will never make success at anything

Einsteins journey with the violin

He learnt to play violin at the age of 6 because his mother wanted him to: He later became a gifted amateur violinist maintaining this skill throughout his life.

Where did his family move when he was 15 years old

Munich

How was Einstein’s schooling experience in Munich

He scored good marks in almost every subject but he often clashed with his teachers. He hated the school regimentation. He felt so stifled that he left the school for good.

Where did Albert move to after Munich? How did it affect his education

Zurich , Switzerland. He got is wish to continue his education in Switzerland , in a city which was much more liberal than Munich

Explain Einstein’s higher studies

He was highly gifted in mathematics and physics. After school he decided to study at the university in Zurich

Who was Mileva Maric?

She was a fellow student at Zurich University who Einstein found to be a clever creature. She was a young Serbian who had come to Zurich as it was one of the few places in Europe where women could get Degrees

On what grounds was Einstein relationship with Mileva.

She found her an ally against the philistines those people in his family and the university with whom he was constantly at odds with. They couple fell in love and wrote letters in which they showed their affection towards one another mixing science into tenderness.

Quote what Einstein wrote to Mileva Maric

How happy and proud I shall be when we both have bought our work on relativity to a victorious conclusion.

What year did Einstein graduate university , was he employed.

He graduated university in the year 1900 at the age of 21. He was unemployed and worked as a teaching assistant and gave private lessons.

What year did Einstein get his first job? What was it?

In 1902 , he got a job as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. His work there was to asses other peoples inventions.While working there he was developing his own ideas in secret.

What did he call his drawer at work?

The Bureau of Theoretical Physics

Which year was Special Theory of Relativity published

1905

Explain the Special Theory of Relativity

It said that tie and distance are not absolute but relative. That if two perfectly accurate clocks will not show the same time if one of them has been moving very fast relative to the other.

From this he came up with the world’s most famous formula which described the relationship between mass and energy

E = mc²

How did Einstein humorously describe relativity

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for 2 minutes it feels like two hours - that’s reativity.

What was the difficulties in marrying Mileva

His mother thought that Mileva who was 3 years older was too old for him. She was also bothered by Mileva’s intelligence and said that she is also a book like Albert. This made Einstein put off the wedding

What year did Mileva marry Einstein

January 1903

What happened when Einstein married Mileva?

They finally married and had to sons but their marraige faltered as Mileva lost her intellectual ambition and became a unhappy houswife.

When did Einstein divorce Mileva

1919

Who did EInstein marry after Mileva

His cousin Elsa

When did he publish General Theory of Relativity? What was it

1915 , it provided a new interpretation of gravity

When and how was relativity proved

In 1919 , when a solar eclipse of the sun occurred Einstein had correctly calculated in advance the extent from which light from fixed stars would be deflected through the sun’s gravitational field.

Which year did he win the Nobel Prize

1921

When did Nazis come to power? What happened then?

The nazis came to power in 1933. Due to this he emigrated to the United States

What was fission?

The discovery of nuclear fission had physicists in an uproar and they were afraid the nazi’s could build and use and atomic bomb.

Who did Einstein write a letter to? What did he say in it?

He wrote a letter to the American President , Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he warned that a single atomic bomb exploded in a port might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory.

When did Einstein write his letter?

2 August 1939

What effect did his letter have

It lead to the Americans developing the atomic bomb in a secret project of their own called the Manhattan Project and dropping it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Which year was the atomic bomb dropped

August 1945

What was einstein’s reaction to the atomic bomb?

He was deeply shaken by the extent of destruction. HE wrote a public missive to the United Nations in which he proposed a formation of the world government.

What did Einstein do in the later stage of his career?

He got involved in politics , agitating for an end to the arms buildup and using his popularity to campaign for peace and democracy.

When did Einstein pass away? At what age?

1995 at 76 years old

What was the impact Einstein left behind

He was celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius due to his positive involvement in non scientific affairs.