Albert Einstein: Facts & Related Content

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Facts

Born March 14, 1879 • UlmGermany
Died April 18, 1955 (aged 76) • PrincetonNew Jersey
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1925)Nobel Prize (1921)
Subjects Of Study Brownian motionE=mc2Einstein’s mass-energy relationgravitationgravitational wavelightmass-energy equivalencephotoelectric effectphotonrelativityspace-timespecial relativityunified field theory

Did You Know?

  • J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hoped to unmask Einstein as a Soviet spy and maintained almost constant surveillance of Einstein. His FBI file totaled 1,800 pages.
  • Einstein adored playing violin and said that if he had not gone into physics, he likely would have become a musician.
  • Einstein's brain was removed without permission during his autopsy and was sent to be tested for its perceived secrets.

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Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
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Fresnel, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a contemporary portrait, 1825
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Hermann Weyl
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Thomas Young, engraving
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Stephen Hawking
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illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
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