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Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein ( / ˈaɪnstaɪn / EYEN-styne; [ 4] German: [ˈalbɛɐt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] ⓘ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to ...
Einstein's scientific publications are listed below in four tables: journal articles, book chapters, books and authorized translations. Each publication is indexed in the first column by its number in the Schilpp bibliography (Albert Einstein: Philosopher–Scientist, pp. 694–730) and by its article number in Einstein's Collected Papers.
Einstein's thought experiments. A hallmark of Albert Einstein 's career was his use of visualized thought experiments ( German: Gedankenexperiment[ 1]) as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating his concepts to others. Einstein's thought experiments took diverse forms. In his youth, he mentally chased beams of ...
Albert Einstein (1879–1955), photographed here in around 1905. In 1905, a 26-year-old German physicist named Albert Einstein (then a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland) showed how measurements of time and space are affected by motion between an observer and what is being observed. Einstein's radical theory of relativity revolutionized science ...
Einstein in 1904 or 1905, about the time he wrote the annus mirabilis papers. The annus mirabilis papers (from Latin annus mīrābilis, "miracle year") are the four [ a] papers that Albert Einstein published in Annalen der Physik ( Annals of Physics ), a scientific journal, in 1905. These four papers were major contributions to the foundation ...
The Evolution of Physics: The Growth of Ideas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta is a science book for the lay reader. Written by the physicists Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, it traces the development of ideas in physics. It was originally published in 1938 by Cambridge University Press. It was a popular success, [1] and was ...
Relatives. Eduard Einstein (brother) Lieserl Einstein (sister) Hans Albert Einstein (May 14, 1904 – July 26, 1973) was a Swiss-American engineer and educator of German and Serbian origin, the second child and first son of physicists Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. He was a long-time professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of ...
Albert Einstein – German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics ). [1] [2] : 274 Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. [3] [4] Einstein is best known by the general public for his mass–energy equivalence ...