Monday, October 20, 2008

Einstein (physics)

Date and place of birth:14 March 1879 Germany



Life:Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on 14 March 1879. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein.



Discoveries:Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity. which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity, which was intended to extend the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion and to provide a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics



Date of death:18 April 1955

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