Einstein, Albert general relativity

G. E. Tauber (Ed.), Albert Einstein s Theory of General Relativity, Crown, New York (1979). 

General relativity (Albert Einstein) Einstein refines his 1905 theory of relativity (now called special relativity) to describe the theory that states that uniform accelerations are almost indistinguishable from gravity. Einstein s theory provides the basis for physicists best understanding of gravity and of the framework of the universe. 

EINSTEIN, ALBERT (1879-1955). German-bom physicist. Einstein is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists ever. He is well known for originating a general theory of relativity of space and time... 

Nobel Prize-winner Albert Einstein (1879-1955) is recognized as one of the greatest physicists of all time and the most important scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the special and general theories of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of space and time. He... 

A second major break with the past, the special theory of relativity, was the brainchild of Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, in Bern, Switzerland in 1905. No twentieth-century scientist has been regarded with such awe and reverence, by nonscientists and scientists alike, as Albert Einstein. After he generalized the relativity theory in 1915 and after one of its predictions, the bending of light by a massive object, was confirmed by Arthur Eddington s eclipse expedition, Einstein became a world celebrity. 

Albert Einstein, German-Swiss-American physicist. Bom Ulm, Germany, 1879. Ph.D. Zurich 1905. Professor Zurich, Prague, Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey. Nobel Prize in physics 1921 for theory of die photoelectric effect. Best known for the special (1905) and general (1915) theories of relativity. Died Princeton, 1955. 

Figure 3.22 Albert Einstein, who among many things, explained the photoelectric effect and the Brownian motion, and proposed the special and general theories of relativity. (Published with permission from the Deutsches Museum, Munich.)...

Chemist Fritz Haber left) and theoretician Albert Einstein, c. 1914. Haber guided German development of poison gases in the Great War Einstein spoke out for pacifism and pursued the general theory of relativity. He had already formulated the fateful mass-energy equivalence, E = mc. ... 

Periodically, scientists uncover, in the treasure troves of mathematicians, a theory that allows the simple solution of a hitherto unresolved problem, or at least makes possible its formulation in a conceptual framework that eventually leads to an elegant solution. A typical example of this process is the adoption of tensor calculus by physicists in the early years of the 20th century. In the 1880s and 1890s, two Italian mathematicians, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (1853-1925) and Tullio Levi-Civita (1873-1941), spent years patiently elaborating a mathematical theory initially referred to as absolute differential calculus and later known as tensor calculus. This theory attracted virtually no attention outside of mathematical circles until Albert Einstein realized that it was precisely the tool he crucially needed to develop his general theory of relativity. He... 

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). .. was a German-bom theoretical physicist who is mainly renowned for his special theory of relativity and its extension to the general theory of relativity. In addition to this, he worked on statistical mechanics and quantum theory and investigated the thermal properties of light. At the beginning of his scientific career he also set important landmarks for colloid science. This applies particularly to his explanation of Brownian motion, but is also valid for the calculation of suspension viscosity as well as his theory of critical opalescence. In 1921, he was given the Nobel Prize in Physics Tor his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect . 

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