Einstein and his General Theory

Einstein and his General Theory

Originaly handed in 11/6/98
Submitted to School Sucks 11/9/98


ALBERT
EINSTEIN
1879-1955

Einstein 1879-1955

Probably the most recognized figure in the science
world today is that of Albert Einstein. One of the few
scientists who revolutionized the entire Physics field and
the way we think, he is responsible for ideas as grand and
complex as the relationships that exist between time and
gravity, to why the sky is blue, an issue now considered to
be fundamental.
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in Ulm,
Germany into a middle-class Jewish family. A year later,
they moved to Munich, were Albert grew up. In elementary
school, his success was less then admirable. At the age of
twelve, he was given a book on Geometry, he instantly fell
in love. He found that his studies were much more successful
outside of the classroom.
In1894, his family moved to Italy. Einstein stayed
behind to finish his studies. In 1895, he applied for
admission to the Zurich Polytechnic Institute. He was denied
acceptance, due to the fact that his previous curriculum was
completely science centered. He was forced to complete
another year of secondary school, before he was admitted to
the institute in 1896. While at school, he met Mileva Maric,
the woman he would marry in 1903, and go on to father two
children with.
Upon graduation from the institute, he took a job as an
examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern. At night, he
would work on his Physics, and his own theories. His first
works were published in 1904, and dealt with statistical
thermodynamics, but not anything that wasn’t already known
in the physics field.
He first made a name for himself in 1905, with the
publishing of his series of papers, titled: Annalen der
Physik. The first paper “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning
the Production and Transformation of Light” linked
statistical thermodynamics to light radiation, by using
results that had been obtained five years earlier...