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Albert Einstein (Ulm, Germany, March 14, 1879 - Princeton, USA, April 18, 1955) was a German physicist of Jewish
origin, nationalized after U.S. and Switzerland. He is considered the century's most important scientific XX.1

In 1905, as a young unknown physical, employed in the Patent Office in Bern, published his theory of special
relativity. It sat in a simple theoretical framework based on simple physical principles, concepts and phenomena
studied earlier by Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz. As a logical consequence of this theory, derived the
equation of physics best known at the grassroots level: the mass-energy equivalence, E = mc ². That year he
published other works that would lay the basis for statistical physics and quantum mechanics.

In 1915 he presented the theory of general relativity, which reformulated the whole concept of gravity. One
consequence was the emergence of the scientific study of the origin and evolution of the Universe by the branch
of physics called cosmology. In 1919, when British observations of a solar eclipse confirmed his predictions about
the bending of light, was idolized by the prensa.3 Einstein became a popular icon of the science world famous, a
privilege available to very few scientists a

For their explanation of the photoelectric effect and his many contributions to theoretical physics in 1921 won
the Nobel Prize in Physics and the Theory of Relativity, as the scientist who was given the task of evaluating it,
did not understand, and feared risk that later prove errónea.4 5 In that time was still considered somewhat
controversial.

Before the rise of Nazism, the scientist left Germany by December 1932 to the United States, where he taught
teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Became a U.S. citizen in 1940. During his last years he
worked to integrate in a single theory the gravitational and electromagnetic. He died in Princeton, New Jersey on
April 18, 1955
who is?
 The magazine "Time" appointed him as the person
 of the twentieth century, and nobody dared to
 question the legitimacy of the Election. Barry Parker,
 one of his biographers more recent risks to say that
 Einstein was perhaps the most greatest scientist in
 human history, remembering when it in 1905,
 something more than a century, his Theory of
 Relativity (Energy, equals mass times the speed of
 light squared), which changes men the Conception
 traditional time and space .
He is a genius

 The essence of a man like me is exactly what he thinks
 and how he thinks, not what he does or suffers.
 Einstein thus justified the reader of the ⎯
 Autobiographical Notes, with black humor, said his
 obituary ⎯ were facing a little biographical book full of
 complicated mathematical formulas and concepts.
 Here, as in many other things, Albert Einstein was a
 peculiar man, "But I'm like, I can not be otherwise."
 Perhaps because of this in his autobiography was the
 fascination he felt the day his father showed him a
 compass.
Some facts:
                 1905 invention
Born on March 14 The
of 1879          photoelectric-         Scientist
                 ceffect


                                        Being one of the
Died on April 18,    Was professor in   most important
1955 (76 years old). 1906               men of the world
                                        in science.
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