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KOMPAS.com – Today 66 years ago, on April 18, 1955 to be precise, scientists Albert Einstein died at the age of 76.
Quoting Britannica, Einstein was a born physicist German that develops theory of relativity specifically and in general and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Einstein is known to have been born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879 and died in the United States.
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Einstein is considered the most influential physicist of the XX century because of his genius.
There were two “miracles” that influenced his early years. The first time he met a compass when he was 5 years old.
At that time he was confused as to why an invisible force could repel needles. It had attracted him to an invisible force for the rest of his life.
The second miracle came at the age of 12 when he discovered the geometry book. He called it a sacred little geometry book.
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Very religious at 12 years old
Einstein was very religious at the age of 12.
Even composed several songs to praise his Lord and sang religious songs on the way to school.
However, Einstein began to change after reading science books that contradicted his religious beliefs.
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This challenge to established authority leaves a deep and lasting impression.
The turning point of his life occurred at the age of 16.
He met a young medical student, Max Talmud (later to become Max Talmey), who often had dinner at Einstein’s house.
The Talmud became an informal tutor, introducing Einstein to higher mathematics and philosophy. Einstein was also given a children’s science series written by Aaron Bernstein.
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In the book, the author imagines driving with electricity running on a telegraphic cable.
This left Einstein with questions that dominated his mind for the next 10 years.
He asks what will the beam of light be like if you can walk beside it. If light was a wave, then the light beam would appear stationary, like frozen waves.
Einstein also wrote his first “scientific paper” at that time (“The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields”).
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Alberti Einstein’s Facts
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The following are lesser known facts about Albert Einstein:
1. Didn’t fail at math as a child
Launch History, Einstein did not fail at math as a child, as those around him often call it.
Although he dropped out of school at the age of 15, if not reluctant Einstein was actually an outstanding student during his schooling in Munich.
He received high marks during his school days in Munich, and was only frustrated by what he described as the “mechanical discipline” demanded by his teacher.
“Before I was 15 years old, I had mastered differential and integral calculus,” Einstein said dismissing rumors about him failing mathematics.
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2. Nobody knows what happened to his first daughter
In 1896, Einstein relinquished his German citizenship and enrolled at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich.
There, he started a passionate romance with Mileva Maric, a fellow training physicist from Serbia.
The couple later married and had two sons upon graduation, but a year before they married, Maric gave birth to an illegitimate daughter named Lieserl.
Einstein never spoke about the child to his family, and the biographer didn’t even notice his existence until examining his personal documents in the late 1980s.
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3. It took Einstein 9 years to get a job in academia
Einstein showed a torsion of excellence over the years at Zurich Polytechnic.
But his rebellious personality and penchant for ditching led his professors to give him less than brilliant recommendations after graduating in 1900.
The young physicist then spent two years looking for an academic position before settling on the Swiss patent office in Bern.
He did not win a full professorship until 1909, nearly a decade after he left school.
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4. Offer his wife the Nobel Prize as part of settling the divorce
After his marriage to Mileva Maric hit a rock in the early 1910s, Einstein left his family, moved to Berlin and started a new relationship with his cousin, Elsa.
He and Maric finally divorced a few years later in 1919.
As part of their farewell agreement, Einstein promised him an annual salary plus whatever money he might receive from the Nobel Prize (Einstein was sure he would win).
Maric agreed and Einstein later gave up a small fortune after accepting an award in 1922 for his work on the photoelectric effect.
By then, he had remarried Elsa, who remained his wife until his death in 1936.
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5. The solar eclipse helped make Einstein world famous
In 1915, Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which states that gravitational fields cause distortions in the structure of space and time.
Because it was such a bold rewrite of the laws of physics, this theory remained controversial until May 1919.
When a total solar eclipse provides the right conditions to test its claim that a supermassive object (in this case the sun) will cause a measurable curve in the light of a passing star.
To prove Einstein’s theory, British astronomer Arthur Eddington traveled to the coast of West Africa and photographed the eclipse.
After analyzing the images, he confirmed that the sun’s gravity had bent the light by about 1.7 arcseconds (exactly as predicted by general relativity).
The news made Einstein a celebrity in yesterday. Newspapers praised him as the successor of Sir Isaac Newton and Einstein went on to travel around the world giving lectures on his theory of the cosmos.
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7. Einstein’s discoveries could support the formation of the atomic bomb
In the late 1930’s, Einstein learned that new research had put German scientists on the right track to creating the atomic bomb.
The possibility of a doomsday weapon in the hands of the Nazis convinced him to put aside his pacifist principles and team up with Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard, who helped him write a letter urging President Franklin D. Roosevelt to undertake atomic research.
Although Einstein never participated directly in the Manhattan Project, he later expressed deep regret about his minor role in causing the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
“If I had known that Germany would not have succeeded in producing an atomic bomb, I would never have given up my hand,” he said.
He went on to become a strong proponent of nuclear disarmament, arms testing controls and a united world government shortly before his death in 1955.
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8. Einstein’s brain was stolen after his death
Einstein died in April 1955 of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.
He has requested that his body be cremated.
But in a bizarre incident, Princeton pathologist Thomas Harvey removes his brain during an autopsy and keeps it in the hope of unlocking the secrets of his genius.
A number of studies have been conducted since the 1980s, but most have been dismissed or discredited. Perhaps the most famous came in 1999.
At that time a team from a Canadian university published a controversial paper claiming that Einstein had an unusual fold in his parietal lobe, a part of the brain associated with math and spatial abilities.
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