Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
On June 30, 1905, Albert Einstein publishes “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies),”
a paper that sets out his theory of special relativity, in the
German physics journal Annalen der Physik. Einstein’s
groundbreaking work shatters the foundations of physics.
Einstein in 1893, age 14
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist
who is best known for developing the theory of
relativity.
On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal
bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal
aortic aneurysm.
He died in the Princeton Hospital early the next
morning at the age of 76
On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born, the son of
a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s
theories of special and general relativity drastically
altered human understanding of the universe, and his
work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.
E = mc2
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in
the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace
on December 10, 1901.
The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast
fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be
“annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”
Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the
prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret
over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.
First award ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music.
Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896)
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted
centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new
era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent
Jewish family in Ulm, Germany, on this day in 1879.
Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his
services to theoretical physics, and especially for his
discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
