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Einstein’s Childhood
•Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879 in Ulm, Germany.
•Einstein was slow in learning how tospeak.
•Began formal school at the age six whenhe enrolled in Petersschule onBlumenstrasse, a Catholic elementaryschool in Munich.
Einstein’s Childhood
•He had his first scientific experiment bythe age of four or five. His father showedhim a pocket compass and the boy wasmarveled at the fact that regardless ofwhere the compass turned, the needlealways pointed North. Thus demonstratedan interest in science and problem solvingeven before entering school.
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•Performed his first famous thoughtexperiment at the age of sixteen.
•Graduated in 1900 from ETH with adegree in physics.
•He struggled for two years and could notfind a job until he was hired at the FederalOffice for Intellectual Property.
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•Absolute time had to be replaced by a newabsolute.
•He asserted the equivalence of mass andenergy, which would lead to the famousformula E=mc 2
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•Challenged the wave theory of light, suggesting that lightcould be a collection of particles. winning a Noble Prizefor it in 1921.
His paper concerning the Brownian motion of particles.With profound insight, Einstein blended ideas from kinetictheory and classical hydrodynamics to derive an equationfor the mean free path of such particles as a function of thetime.
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•Einstein showed how to calculate Avogadro's numberand the size of molecules.
•In 1910, Einstein answered a basic question: 'Why is thesky blue?' His paper on the phenomenon called criticalopalescence solved the problem by examining thecumulative effect of the scattering of light by individualmolecules in the atmosphere.
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•Einstein recognized that there might be a problem with the classicalnotion of cause and effect. Given the peculiar, dual nature of quantaas both waves and particles, it might be impossible, he warns, todefinitively tie effects to their causes.
•Between 1905 and 1925, Einstein transformed humankind'sunderstanding of nature on every scale, from the smallest to that ofthe cosmos as a whole. Now, nearly a century after he began tomake his mark, we are still exploring Einstein's universe.
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•When he was in school there he was always getting intotrouble. He was constantly playing pranks on histeachers and classmates in school. It was in schoolplaying a prank when Einstein became interested inphysics. He blew a spitball at the back of a classmate'sneck. He became interested in the dynamics of thespitball and ended up understanding differential andintegral calculus. Even so, before he was finished withhigh school, his prank playing got him expelled fromschool.
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•He never did let his parents learn that he had beenkicked out of school. He instead auditioned with theLondon Symphony and got in the symphony. He went onto become the 'first chair'. He was known as a brilliantviolin soloist. But he was not liked in the symphony eitherbecause of his non-conformity and his continuouspranks. He would add his own musical improvisation, aprank in the middle of a musical piece before anaudience. The conductor would get so mad at him, aswould the other members of the orchestra. He wasasked to leave the symphony.
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