Ev day biography of albert einstein
“The city of birth will be as much a unique part of your life as your descent from your mother.”
Albert Einstein, 1929
ALBERT EINSTEIN IN ULM, 1879 – 1880
Hermann Einstein (1847-1902), born in Buchau on the Federsee and merchant in Ulm, married 18 year-old Pauline Koch (1858-1920) from Cannstatt, the daughter of a purveyor to the royal household and corn-merchant in Stuttgart, on August 8, 1876. At first Hermann Einstein and his young wife lived at the “Suedlicher Muensterplatz” in Ulm. He was the joint owner of a company trading with feather-beddings at Weinhof A 90 (“Zum Engländer”, later renamed to Weinhof 19). Ulm was then a soaring town of some 33000 inhabitants with two percent among them being Jews. The Einsteins, also being of Jewish ancestry, participated in the religious life of the Jewish community. In 1878/79 Hermann Einstein and his pregnant wife moved to a new and larger residence at Bahnhofstrasse B 135 (in 1880 renamed to Bahnhofstrasse 20) in Ulm.
Einstein’s birth-place
About his birth-place in the Bahnhofstrasse 20, in a letter to Carlos Erlanger, son of the house-owner at that time, Einstein wrote in April 1929: “To be born the house is quite nice because on this occasion one does not yet have major aesthetic needs; instead one cries at his beloved ones without worrying much about reasons and conditions.”
The house, erected in 1871, was destroyed in December 1944 during one of the heaviest bombardments of Ulm. Einstein did not have any special relation to his birth-place. When he was shown a photo of his destroyed birth-place he wrote in his reply: “Time has affected it even much more than it has affected me.”
On March 14, 1879, a Friday, Pauline Einstein gave birth to her first child, a boy, in their residence in the Bahnhofstrasse. On the following day Hermann Einstein registered his son at the registry office in Ulm with the name Albert.
As the back o German-born physicist (1879–1955) "Einstein" redirects here. For other uses, see Einstein (disambiguation) and Albert Einstein (disambiguation). Albert Einstein Einstein in 1947 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. Mileva Marić Elsa Löwenthal Albert Einstein (, EYEN-styne;German:[ˈalbɛʁtˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn]; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc, which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for . Born in the German Empire, Einstein moved to Switzerland in 1895, forsaking his German citizenship (as a subject of the Kingdom of Württemberg) the following year. In 1897, at the age of seventeen, he enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss federal polytechnic school in Zurich, graduating in 1900. He acquired Swiss citizenship a year later, which he kept for the rest of his life, and afterwards secured a permanent position at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. In 1905, h I mentioned recently that I was rereading Ray Ginger’s Six Days or Forever? Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes (1958) in order to prepare for a talk about the Scopes trial. While doing so, I took notes about more than just the ornate vocabulary, which I discussed in “A Ginger Glossary” (part 1, part 2). Here’s a passage I marked: “Three days later [i.e., on June 22, 1925], as Albert Einstein was declaring in Berlin that ‘any restriction of academic liberty heaps coals of shame upon the community which tolerates such suppression,’ Clarence Darrow arrived in Dayton to get the lay of the land.” That was nice to see, if not especially surprising. After all, I knew that Marie Curie—a Nobelist in physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911—had deplored the prosecution of Scopes (see “Marie Curie’s Voice for Evolution”), so it wouldn’t be odd for Einstein—a Nobelist in physics in 1921, for his work on the photoelectric effect—to raise his voice for evolution as well. Characteristically, Ginger didn’t provide a source—in general, he writes, “an elaborate system of footnotes would be misplaced” in a work such as Six Days or Forever? L. Sprague de Camp’s The Great Monkey Trial (which John Harshman mentioned in commenting on “A Ginger Glossary”) is superior in its sourcing, and cites the Pittsburgh Sun for June 22, 1925, for the Einstein quote in particular. Without visiting a research library, I couldn’t find that issue of the Sun, but no harm done: the newspaper was presumably running the United Press story by Frederic Kuh, which I found published in the Syracuse Journal. In the Sun, it apparently ran under the headline “Ape case loosens up tongue of Einstein”; in the Journal, where I read it, it ran under the rather more staid headline “Restriction of academic liberty stirs Einstein,” although the deck to the story described him as “Relativity man,” which is amusing. Anyhow, according to the story, after “[m]aking it c
Albert Einstein
Born (1879-03-14)14 March 1879 Died 18 April 1955(1955-04-18) (aged 76) Citizenship Education Known for Spouses Children Family Einstein Awards Scientific career Fields Physics Institutions Thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions) (1905) Doctoral advisor Alfred Kleiner Other academic advisors Heinrich Friedrich Weber Benim Sözlerimle Dünya
Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists lived in 20th century. He made lasting contribution in physics, politics, society and towards understanding human nature. He was also an avid commentator and his insights were far and wide on a range of topics. The popularity of his quotes is illustrated by the recent publication of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, volume 15. Several quotable gems have been mined from Einstein’s archives. But it turns out that many quotes are miss-attributed to Einstein and some are edited or paraphrased to sharpen for lasting impression. The most famous quote is of course, “God does not play dice” referring to quantum entanglement of physical reality. But it isn’t quite his words. It derives from a letter written in December 1926 to his friend physicist Max Born. His actual words were; There is: “Quantum mechanics…... delivers much but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not play dice.” Einstein does not use the word ‘God’ here, but ‘the Old One’ signifies a “personification of creating entity.”
Einstein has used the word god in many other quotes when he was not talking of physical reality and laws of physics. Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish." His letter was written to Eric Gutkind in January 1954. He added, "the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions." But he also said: "I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
Einstein had lot to say about raising anti-Semitism in his native Germany. He expresses his disappointment and frustration the way it was practiced at elementary schools by children and how it impacted Je Albert Einstein’s Voice for Evolution