Einsteins Contributions to the World
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist, who created the theory of relativity, which caused a revolution in physics. This man is the reason we think of physics in the way we do. An example of how he thought outside the box is: around May of 1905, he went to visit one of his good friend's Michele Besso. They discussed Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's equations and how these two sets of rules are incompatible. This issue had been pressing Einstein for a decade and he wanted to try to resolve it to no avail. Depressed he went home on his way home he looked at the famous clock tower and imagined a car driving away at the speed of light, then it all came to him all of a sudden: "Time can beat at different rates throughout the universe, depending on how fast you moved." (Einstein) In 1921
he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric
effect. He could not make it in Germany and decided to leave his home and its Nazi takeover, and come to America. He came here in hopes of developing a unified field theory (a theory that unifies all the forces of physics into one framework, in which he never succeeded.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/theory-behind-equation.html
With Einsteins creation of the equation E=mc^2, he was able to work with the government to help with the creation of the atomic bomb. The director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover tried to deport Einstein not trusting his socialist past, but luckily the U.S. State Department overruled him. He helped the U.S. Navy so much by evaluating designs for future weapons he even went so far as to auction off some of his priceless hand written manuscripts, like his 1905 paper on special relativity which sold for 6.5 million to help with the war efforts.
http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408?page=5
With his famous equation, he determined that energy could be converted into mass and because of the equal sign matter could be converted into energy. The conversion factor is an enormous number, the speed of light squared. Therefore this must mean that a small amount of mass can be transformed into a massive amount of energy, or in other words the idea of an atomic bomb is completely probable.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/theory-behind-equation.html
With Einsteins creation of the equation E=mc^2, he was able to work with the government to help with the creation of the atomic bomb. The director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover tried to deport Einstein not trusting his socialist past, but luckily the U.S. State Department overruled him. He helped the U.S. Navy so much by evaluating designs for future weapons he even went so far as to auction off some of his priceless hand written manuscripts, like his 1905 paper on special relativity which sold for 6.5 million to help with the war efforts.
http://www.biography.com/people/albert-einstein-9285408?page=5
With his famous equation, he determined that energy could be converted into mass and because of the equal sign matter could be converted into energy. The conversion factor is an enormous number, the speed of light squared. Therefore this must mean that a small amount of mass can be transformed into a massive amount of energy, or in other words the idea of an atomic bomb is completely probable.