Albert Einstein

FAMOUS AS: Father of Modern Physics

BORN ON: 14 March 1879 AD

BORN IN: Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire

DIED ON: 18 April 1955 AD

NATIONALITY: United States

ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces    Famous Pisceans

WORKS & ACHIEVEMENTS: Won Nobel Prize in Physics for the law of photoelectric effect; developed the general theory of relativity.

ALBERT EINSTEIN TIMELINE

1879 :

Albert Einstein was born

1884 :

Took admission in the Catholic elementary school

1887 :

Transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium to attain primary and secondary education

1895 :

Sat for the examinations for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich but failed

1895 :

Enrolled in the Aargau Cantonal School in Aarau, Switzerland

1896 :

Sat and passed the examinations for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich

1901 :

Published the paper "Folgerungen aus den Kapillarität Erscheinungen"

1903 :

Einstein and Mariac got married

1904 :

Mariac gave birth to their first son, Hans Albert Einstein

1905 :

Was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich; Presented the four groundbreaking papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of matter and energy

1908 :

Was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Bern.

1911 :

Became a full-time professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague.

1914 :

Returned to Germany as he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics and a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin

1916 :

Was appointed as the president of the German Physical Society

1921 :

Was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Physics

1922 :

Einstein journeyed to Asia and later to Palestine

1925 :

Einstein received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society

1933 :

Einstein visited American universities where he undertook his third two-month visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology

1940 :

Gained a permanent citizenship in US

1955 :

Alber tEinstein breathed his last

AWARDS AND HONOUR

• Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922
• In 1929, Einstein was presented with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society in Berlin
• In 1936, Einstein was awarded the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal for his extensive work on relativity and the photo-electric effect
• International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 as the "World Year of Physics" commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of the annus mirabilis papers.
• Albert Einstein has to his name a science park, located on the hill, Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, Germany. The park has a tower by the name, Einstein Tower which is an astrophysical, built to perform checks of Einstein's theory of General Relativity
• Washington DC houses the Albert Einstein Memorial. In it, is a monumental bronze statue depicting Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand.
• Four months after his death, the chemical element 99 (einsteinium) was named for him
• The Time magazine, in 1999, named Einstein as the Person of the Century.
• The United States Postal Service honored Einstein with a Prominent Americans series 8¢ postage stamp.
• In 2008, Einstein was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.