ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879 -1955)

Presented by : Vinit Vyas

BIRTH -

MARCH 14TH 1879 ULM, WUTTERNBURG , GERMANY

HOUSE OF EINSTEIN IN ULM

WAS BORN TO HERMANN

AND PAULINE EINSTEIN

AS A CHILD EINSTEIN WAS SLOW TO LEARN AND SPEAK

EINSTEIN SUFFERED FROM DYSLEXIA

BIRTH -Continued-

Einstein at 5 yrs

Einstein at 14 yrs

Einstein at 20 yrs

BIRTH -Continued-

WAS GIFTED A COMPASS BY HIS FATHER

WAS CURIOUS AS TO WHY THE NEEDLE ALWAYS POINTED NORTH

HENCE FORTH STARTED OBSERVING ALMOST EVERYTHING IN HIS SURROUNDINGS.

BIRTH -Continued-

Einstein at 5 yrs

Einstein at 14 yrs

Einstein at 21 yrs

ALMA MATER

EINSTEIN BEGAN SCHOOLING AT LUITPOLD GYMNASIUM AT THE AGE OF 10

EXCELLED ONLY IN

MATHEMATICS AND LATIN

FAVORITE SUBJECTS

WERE PHILOSOPHY AND GEOMETRY

LUIDPOLD GYMNASIUM

EINSTEIN’S SCHOOL PHOTO

EINSTEIN

BIRTH -Continued-

Einstein at 5 yrs

Einstein at 14 yrs

Einstein at 20 yrs

ALMA MATER

ETH ZURIC UNIVERSITY HE GRADUATED

FROM ETH ZURICH UNIVERSITY IN SWITZERLAND IN 1900.

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AFTER WHICH HE RELINQUISHED HIS GERMAN CITIZENSHIP AND BECAME A SWISS CITIZEN

CAREER – ACCEPTED A POSITION AS

TECHNICAL ASSISTANT IN THE SWISS PATENT OFFICE.

IN 1905 HE OBTAINED HIS DOCTOR'S DEGREE.

RETIRED FROM HIS POST OF PROFESSOR AT THEORETICAL PHYSICS AT PRINCETON IN 1945

EINSTEIN IN BERN PATENT OFFICE IN 1921

AFTER WORLD WAR II -

BECAME A LEADING FIGURE IN WORLD GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT

DECLINED THE OFFER OF

PRESIDENCY OF ISRAEL

EVEN AFTER RETIREMENT CONTINUED

TO WORK TOWARDS THE UNIFICATION OF THE BASIC CONCEPTS OF PHYSICS

ACHIEVEMENTS -

RECEIVED HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREES IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY FROM MANY EUROPEAN & AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES

WAS AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS OR MEMBERSHIPS OF ALL THE LEADING SCIENTIFIC ACADEMIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

WON THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

IN 1921 FOR THEORY OF RELATIVITY

LEISURE -

LOVED NATURE AND WALKED AROUND THE TOWN

LOVED MUSIC AND NEVER

GAVE UP HIS VIOLIN

LOVED TRAVELLING AND

TRAVELLED ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS

NEWTONS THEORY -

EINSTEIN’S ARGUMENT -

EINSTEIN’S SOLUTION -

THEORY OF RELATIVITY -

(EINSTEIN’S SIGNATURE)