Albert Einstein

Posted October 4, 2007, 3:16 pm by Growing Bolder


Albert Einstein
Born: March 14, 1879
Died: April 18, 1955

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist of profound genius who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics.

Einstein is probably familiar to most people for his mathematical equation about the nature of energy, E = MC2.

In 1940, at age 61, he became a U.S. citizen.

After the Age of Seventy

• At age 73, the Israeli government proposed he take the post of Second President. He is the only U.S. citizen ever to be offered the position of foreign Head of State.
• At age 74, he released a revised Unified Field Theory.
• At age 76, until his death, he worked tirelessly trying to unify gravity and electromagnetism.

Einstein was named Time magazine's Man of the Century.

Quotes

• "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
• "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
  
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  
• "A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
• "Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

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