Einstein, Albert personality

The latter was a rather extraordinary person. Born in 1872, he started his career as an elementary school teacher, finally obtaining, as a self-taught man, the title of Doctor in physical and mathematical sciences in 1899. Very soon he became interested in relativity and started in 1916 a long correspondence with Albert Einstein. He also had contacts with many other great scientists of that... 

Many eminent persons have had children with serious mental problems and have had at least one child take his or her life. Robert Frost s daughter was committed to the state mental hospital and another daughter had a nervous breakdown. One of Albert Einstein s children was diagnosed as schizophrenic. Ambrose Bierce s oldest son committed suicide, and his other died of alcoholism at age 27. Thomas Edison had two children who became alcoholics, one of whom committed suicide. Alfred Stieglitz s daughter was psychotic and committed to a mental institution. James Joyce had two children. His son became an alcoholic his daughter went mad and, as discussed, was admitted to an asylum for schizophrenia. Numerous other examples demonstrate the frequent problems of geniuses children. Many of these children tried unsuccessfully to pursue careers similar to their eminent parents, but it is not clear if this played any role in their mental problems. 

More than any other person, more than any other physicist, Bohr was the guiding spirit of the quanmm revolution. Bohr was not one of the physicists who, in the mid-1920s, created quantum mechanics Bohr was not adept at creating the formal mathematical structures that were required. Unlike most physicists, Bohr s reputation did not emanate entirely from the papers he wrote. Yet, Bohr s contribution to twentieth-cenmry physics is acknowledged by most physicists as second only to Albert Einstein s. 

Perhaps the common domestic misery of Haber and Einstein drew the two men together. Despite all their political and personal differences, Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein would remain close, their destinies linked, for years to come. 

Yet the scientists at the institute sensed Haber s loyalty and returned it. He was the first person who, as an older man in a prominent position, took me completely seriously and gave me the feeling that I could talk to him in exactly the same way as to another assistant, said James Franck. When Lise Meitner wanted to hold a special seminar with Niels Bohr to which only younger scientists would be invited—a bigwig-free event, they called it— Haber immediately supported the idea. He did, however, ask Meitner if she would make an exception for himself and for Albert Einstein, which she did happily. 

Remarkably, Haber s friendship with Albert Einstein survived the war. Personal affinity triumphed over political differences. To-... 

Then there are the people who find their eternal memorial in the kingdom. Lecoq, as we have seen, has had his little joke with gallium. Most people don t presume to give their own names to elements, and the other personal names have all been bestowed by committee in the nominee s honor. It is appropriate that the southern shoreline, including the southern strip of the Southern Island, should commemorate forever—or for as long as we exist— the contributions of Albert Einstein (einsteinium), Enrico Fermi (fermium), Dmitri Mendeleev (mendelevium), Alfred Nobel (nobelium, for stimulation to discovery, maybe, rather than discovery itself), and Ernest Lawrence... 

Galileo (1564-1642) is called the father of modern science. Albert Einstein called Galileo the father of modern physics—indeed of modern science altogether. Stephen Hawking has stated, Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science. Here, a brief biography and... 

The first person to make serious headway with this approach was Albert Einstein. In 1907, Einstein proposed to understand the motions of the atoms in the crystal using Planck s idea of quantized energy. A crystal is composed of N atoms, say. These N atoms can vibrate within their crystal lattice in the x, the y, or the z direction, giving a total of 3N possible vibrational motions. Einstein assumed that the frequencies of the vibrations were the same, some frequency labeled Vg, or the Einstein frequency. If this were the case, and we are only considering vibration-type motions of the atoms in the crystal, then the heat capacity of the crystal can be determined by applying the vibrational part only of the heat capacity from the vibrational partition function ... 

Chemical kinetics, the subject of this chapter, evolved from an art into a science in the first half of the twentieth century. One person more than any other was responsible for that change Henry Eyring. Born in a Mormon settlement in Mexico, Henry immigrated to Arizona with his parents in 1912, when the Mexican revolution broke out. Many years later, he became a U.S, citizen, appearing before a Judge who had just naturalized Albert Einstein. 

Haber s interest in quantum theory was also stimulated by his personal acquaintance with Albert Einstein the two came to know and respect one another at a scientific meeting in Karlsruhe in the autumn of 1911. Thereafter Haber joined a group of Berlin scholars who took great pains to bring Einstein to Berlin. By so... 

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