Logic will get you from A to B' Imagination will take you everywhere' Things should be made as simpl

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Logic will get you from A to B.Imagination
will take you everywhere.Things should be made
as simple aspossible, but not any simpler.
ALBERT EINSTEIN (March 14, 1879
April 18, 1955)

• ??One of the greatest physicist of all times
• ??Was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1921
• ??Was best known for his Theory of Relativity and
  specifically for the Mass Energy Equation Emc2.

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Biography

• Born on March 14, 1879 in the city of Ulm in
  Württemberg, Germany
• Had an initial language delay till the age of 9,
  but was one of top students in his elementary
  school
• He built models and mechanical devices and showed
  great mathematical ability at an early age
• Was given Violin lessons due to his mothers
  insistence, which he disliked and later on gave
  it up

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Biography

• In 1891, he started learning Euclidean Geometry
  and Calculus on his own.
• He quit school 1.5 years before the final exam,
  leaving him without a secondary school
  certificate
• Finished his secondary school education in Aarau,
  Switzerland
• Einstein was later admitted by the Federal
  Polytechnic Institute in October 1896 and he
  moved to Zurich
• Was granted a teaching diploma by Federal
  Polytechnic Institute in 1900

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Biography

• On January 6 1903, he married Maric whom he
  referred to as, "a creature who is my equal and
  who is as strong and independent as I am
• Bern, In 1908, Einstein was licensed as a
  Privatdozent, in Bern,Switzerland

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Biography

• Became first Associate Professor
• at the University of Zurich in 1911
• He returned to Zurich to become
• full professor at the ETH Zurich in
• 1912
• In 1914, Einstein settled in Berlin
• as Professor at the University of
• Berlin and also served as Director of
• the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
• in Berlin from 1914-1933
• He also held the position of Extraordinary
• Professor at the Leiden University

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The Theory of Relativity

• In November 1915, Einstein presented a series of
  lectures at the Prussian
• Academy of Sciences on a new theory of
  gravity, known as general relativity
• In May 1919, during British solar eclipse
  expeditions, Arthur Eddington
• confirmed Einstein's prediction

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The Theory of Relativity

• This effect is called Gravitational lensing
• The Times reported that confirmation on November
  7 of that year, with the
• headline "Revolution in science New theory
  of the Universe Newtonian ideas overthrown".

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Famous Quotes

• I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are
  details.
• God does not play dice with the universe.
• Two things are infinite the universe and human
  stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
  Knowledge is limited.
• Imagination encircles the world.
• Through the release of atomic energy, our
  generation has brought into the world the most
  revolutionary force since prehistoric man's
  discovery of fire. This basic force of the
  universe cannot be fitted into the outmoded
• concept of narrow nationalisms.