Einstein, Albert relativity theory

Albert Michelson developed the interferometer about 1880 and conducted the Michelson-Morley experiment in 1887, in which it was found that the speed of light is independent of the motion of the source and the observer, this crucial experiment led Einstein to the theory of relativity. Michelson also used the interferometer to create the predecessor of today s length standard based on the wavelength of light. He received the Nobel Prize in 1907 for precision optical instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid. ... 

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. 

Robert s dissertation advisers were both good friends of Albert Einstein Hans Thirring, whose Lense-Thirring equation had provided a method for testing Einstein s special theory of relativity, and Felix Ehrenhaft, who had provided support for Einstein s theory of Brownian motion by making observations of the movement of silver particles in air (which brought him the Lieben Prize of the Vienna Academy of Sciences). For his postdoctoral research topic Robert approached Thirring, chair of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, who directed him to Herman Mark in the First Chemical Laboratory of the University of Vienna. 

A.I. Miller, Albert Einstein s Special Theory of Relativity (Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1981) ... 

The optical ether was a medium that had been invoked as the carrier of the electromagnetic force, although it had never been detected experimentally. Nevertheless, this concept served a mathematical purpose in the theory of electromagnetism until it vras conclusively demolished by Albert Einstein s 1905 theory of special relativity. 

Einstein Albert (1879 - 1955) German physicist, originator of theories of relativity, quantum theory of photoelectric effect, theory of specific heats or Brownian motion. ... 

Dulong Pierre-Louis (1785-1838) Fr. chem., research on refractive indices and specific heats of gases, co-formulated Dulong-Petit s law, devised empirical formula for the heat Earnest Charles Mansfield (1941-) US chem., expert in geoscience and minerals (book Thermal analysis of clays 1984) Einstein Albert (1879-1955) Ger. phys., originator of theories of relativity, laws of motion and rest, simultaneity and... 

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... 

Einsteinium - the atomic number is 99 and the chemical symbol is Es. The name derives from Albert Einstein , the German bom physicist who proposed the theory of relativity. A collaboration of American scientists from the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois, the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico and at the University of California lab in Berkeley, California first found Es in the debris of thermonuclear weapons in 1952. The longest half-life associated with this unstable element is 472 day Es. 

It was only in 1905 that the reality of atoms was finally demonstrated. In that year, the same year that he published the first papers on his special theory of relativity, Albert Einstein published a paper on Brownian movement, the irregular motion of small particles suspended in a liquid. Einstein showed that the patterns of movement that were observed could be explained only by assuming that the particles are constantly buffeted by the molecules that make up the liquid. Thus, observations of Brownian movement provided evidence that molecules—and consequently atoms—are indeed real. 

In 2001, Christian Bok published Eunoia, which includes five chapters, each one of which is a prose poem using words with only one of the five vowels. Eunoia is also the shortest word in the English language to use all five vowels. More recently, Brian Raiter wrote a paper titled Albert Einstein s Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less —an explanation of Albert Einstein s Theory of Relativity using words no more than four letters long, with paragraphs like ... 

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... 

Raiter, Brian, Albert Einstein s Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less, http //www.muppetlabs.com/ breadbox/txt/al. html... 

It is somewhat surprising that despite all of his contributions to science and engineering, including his work on Brownian motion and the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) won his only Nobel Prize in 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. ... 

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

We conclude this chapter by going back to Albert Einstein, whose work was instrumental in the evolution of the quantum theory. Einstein was unable to tolerate the limitations on classical determinism that seem to be an inevitable consequence of the developments outlined in this chapter, and he worked for many years to construct paradoxes which would overthrow it. For example, quantum mechanics predicts that measurement of the state of a system at one position changes the state everywhere else immediately. Thus the change propagates faster than the speed of light—in violation of at least the spirit of relativity. Only in the last few years has it been possible to do the appropriate experiments to test this ERPparadox (named for Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky, the authors of the paper which proposed it). The predictions of quantum mechanics turn out to be correct. 

For most people asked to name a scientist, Albert Einstein is the first name that comes to mind. Einstein s fife story, including his difficulties with math in high school, his time spent as a patent clerk in the Swiss Patent Office, his development of the theory of relativity, and his influence on the development of the nuclear bomb, is the stuff of legends. Indeed, many a struggling high school science student has sought refuge in the notion that Einstein did not do well in that capacity either. 

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