SPOTLIGHTS: ALBERT EINSTEIN 🔬

ALBERT EINSTEIN: He was given work at the Patent Office in Bern. In his leisure time he worked in the area of theoretical physics. In 1905 he published several of his important scientific works. One of them deals with the ground-breaking special theory of relativity. Another work contains the most famous formula of the world “E = m · c2”. This formula states that matter can be converted into energy.

In 1903 he married his college mate Mileva Maric. In 1909 he became professor for theoretical physics at the University of Zurich. After that time he was given a professorship in Prague and then again in Zurich. In 1914 Einstein was called to Berlin to work there scientifically. In the same year World War I broke out.

After Einstein had separated from his wife Mileva and married his cousin Elsa Löwenthal. From 1909 to 1916 Albert Einstein worked on a generalization of the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity. After this theory was proven right in an experiment in 1919 (deflection of light by the sun’s gravitational field) he became famous overnight. He received invitations and honors from all over the world. There was hardly any magazine which did not report about him and praise his work to the skies. For the year 1921 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Through the political situation in Nazi Germany he left the country in 1932. From 1933 Einstein and his family lived in Princeton, USA. At the “Institute for Advanced Study” he found ideal working conditions. In 1939 World War II broke out. Because of his fear that Germany was working on atomic bombs he wrote to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the USA, about the possibility of this weapons.