Homework #3

Albert Einstein (March 14 th 1879 – April 18th 1955)



Known as the father of modern physics, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg



in the German Empire. Even when many rumors claimed that he had severe communication issues



during his early childhood, studies of his academic history demonstrated that Albert began showing his



intellectual talent at the age of five when joined a Catholic elementary school in his hometown.



He postulated the “world’s most famous equation” known as the mass-energy equivalence (E=mC^2);



and even when his most renamed discovery was the “Theory of Relativity”, he won the Nobel Prize in



Physics in 1921 for his discovery of the “Photoelectric Effect”. Thanks to the mathematical fundamentals



of this law, nowadays we can enjoy DVD and Blue-Ray movies using LASER lectors as well as being



able to produce electricity out of solar panels. Modern physicists have mentioned that the “Theory of



Relativity” was completely beyond the understanding of the scientists of that era and they were not



ready to assimilate such discovery.



The Einstein family members were not-observant Jews, for that reason, he decided to stay in the United



States in 1933 when the Nazi party, ruled by Adolf Hitler, took the power in Germany. Later on that year,



he discovered that his name was listed on a German magazine as an enemy of the Nazi party, included



as a pending assessination target with a $5000 bounty on his head.



In October of 1933, he took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University,



and after two years of considering offers from other prestigious universities in Europe, he decided to



permanently stay at Princeton; indeed, he figured affiliated to the Institute for Advanced Studies until



his death in 1955.



During his entire life Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers and around 150 non-scientific



works.



Some of his most famous phrases are:



“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”



“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”



“We cannot solve our problems with same thinking we used when we created them.”