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====== Albert Einstein ====== | ====== Albert Einstein ====== | ||
- | ===== Annus Mirabilis ===== | + | ==== Four groundbreaking papers |
- | In 1905, within few months, young, widely unknown worker | + | In 1905, within |
- | {{tag> | + | ==== Annus Mirabilis ==== |
+ | The first was about the photoelectric effect (particle theory of light, proposed photon), the second explained Brownian motion (proof of the atom's existence), the third introduced special relativity (relation between space and time) and the fourth was about mass-energy equivalence (which led to the famous equation E=mc< | ||
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+ | ==== His brain was stolen ==== | ||
+ | After Einstein died, his brain was stolen by a pathologist who kept it in a jar for 20 years. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Thought experiment ==== | ||
+ | Einstein' | ||
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+ | ==== Money for the Nobel Prize ==== | ||
+ | The money for the Nobel Prize went not to Einstein but to his wife, as part of the divorce settlement. | ||
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+ | ==== President of Israel ==== | ||
+ | Einstein was offered the position of President of Israel, which he turned down after some consideration. [([[https:// | ||
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