What Is Albert Einstein

What was Albert Einstein like as a person?

My mother knew Einstein's stepdaughter when all three were at Princeton during the mid forties. They did tea with Einstein at his house (112 Mercer St.) on Sunday afternoons. Einstein waited until he heard the tea kettle whistling before coming down the stairs to the kitchen to join them. He was invariably disheveled.He was usually in deep thought and not very sociable and would soon politely excuse himself to return to work. But when he dallied it was because he had a chance to discuss things of interest that had previously escaped his notice and thought. And this, despite my mother's efforts, was not talking about physics. Her field was what today we would call molecular biology but he resisted her efforts to have him explain physics to her.But occasionally, Einstein would pick up on a discussion that the animated younger women were having for which Einstein had questions. Politely, and with a cool intellectual demeanor, he would ask my mother questions. And he would bore in to a deeper point. One example she related was on her plans on hosting a Jewish religious meal (Seder). My mother was from Italy and hence Sephardic Jewish. Einstein, though German and hence Ashkenazi Jewish, had lived for a time in Italy and knew some of the differences in customs. Though not interested in the religious parts, he queried her understanding of these different customs and their meaning. Like an anthropologist, he tried to calculate where and when the Jewish traditions had diverged.Einstein was, according to my mother, genuine and gentle but persistent and occasionally impatient. He was inquisitive. He didn't make small talk. He tried to understand things, and only spoke to ask a question or clarification. He never patronized or disrespected these two young women. And, according to my mom, when asked on the IRS tax forms for his occupation, Einstein wrote in "student". I've tried to do the same.BTW, my younger brother was born 5 days after Einstein died, April 18, 1955, and was named…Albert.

What was Albert Einstein's first job?

There is a nice explanation at wikipedia: Albert Einstein

What was the life goal of Albert Einstein?

I know exactly what Einstein’s life’s goal was.Einstein once said, “I want to know God’s thoughts in a mathematical way.”He wanted an equation, perhaps no more than one to two inches long, that would encapsulate all physical laws. He wanted an equation that would describe the beauty, the majesty and the power of the universe.

What was Albert Einstein's full name?

“Albert Einstein”: that’s all there is to his name. His parents, Hermann and Pauline Einstein, did not give baby Albert a middle name. “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare famously asked. What indeed.How different Einstein’s life might have been had his parents given him a dashing middle name, like Antonio. He might have grown up charismatic and fashion-forward, like this handsome young dandy in a stylish Girardi hat, instead of the stodgy little lump he turned out to be.If Albert had been given a middle name, it might well have been his father’s first name, Hermann; or a stolid German name like Hans; or a sly and rakish foreign name like Rico, Antonio, or Felix; or even something magnificent and thundering, like the name of one of the Sigs from the Nibelungenlied, Sigurd, Siegfried, or Siegmund.Albert Einstein might have shed his pants and turned to opera if his parents had given him a musically inspirational middle name like “Siegmund.”Alas! None of these happy fantasies were fated to come true, and we are left with just plain Albert Einstein, patent clerk.

What did Albert Einstein discover?

In his special relativity theory Einstein postulated that the speed of light in a vacuum is constant independent of the speed of its source. According to that theory all objects in the universe are moving with the speed of light, but this speed is departed in space and time. For example a standing object is moving with 0 km/sec in space but it moves with ~ 300.000 km/sec (speed of light) in time. Furthermore the speed of light in the vacuum is the highest speed that is possible.In his general relativity theory he developed this theory according to objects with accelerated speed. According to that theory the force of gravity is bending the space-time structure.Einstein said that we should think space and time together as four dimensions of the universe in order to understand these theories.