Funny & Interesting Stories Of Albert Einstein

1.

Albert Einstein’s wife often suggested that he dress more professionally,
when he headed off to work.
“Why should I?” he would invariably argue.
Everyone knows me there.”
When the time came for Einstein to attend his first major conference,
she begged him to dress up a bit.
“Why should I?” said Einstein.
“No one knows me there

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Albert Einstein was often asked to explain the general theory of relativity.
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour,”
he once declared.
“Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
That’s relativity!”

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3.
When Albert Einstein was working in Princeton university,
one day he was going back home he forgot his home address.
The driver of the cab did not recognize him.
Einstein asked the driver if he knows Einstein’s home.
The driver said “Who does not know Einstein’s address?
Everyone in Princeton knows.
Do you want to meet him?”.
Einstein replied “I am Einstein.
I forgot my home address, can you take me there? ”
The driver reached him to his home and did not even collect his fare from him .

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4.
Einstein was once travelling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle,
punching the tickets of every passenger.
When he came to Einstein,
Einstein reached in his vest pocket.
He couldn’t find his ticket,
so he reached in his trouser pockets.
It wasn’t there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn’t find it.
Then he looked in the seat beside him.
He still couldn’t find it.
The conductor said,
‘Dr. Einstein, I know who you are.
We all know who you are.
I’m sure you bought a ticket.
Don’t worry about it.’
Einstein nodded appreciatively.
The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets.
As he was ready to move to the next car,
he turned around and saw the great physicist
down on his hands and knees
looking under his seat for his ticket.
The conductor rushed back and said,
‘Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don’t worry,
I know who you are. No problem.
You don’t need a ticket.
I’m sure you bought one.’
Einstein looked at him and said,
‘Young man, I too, know who I am.

What I don’t know is where I’m going. That’s why I am searching my ticket”

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EINSTEIN Work AREA And INTERESTS:

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century, an era dominated by science. His theories about how the world works transformed our understanding of the universe. Even as a young child, Einstein was thinking about the world in a way that was different from other children. A toy compass given to Einstein by his father inspired the future scientist. The five-year-old wondered what made the needle always point north.

A creative mind and a love for mathematics and physics inspired the German-born Einstein to become a scientist. However, it was not as a celebrated scientist that Einstein proposed his first groundbreaking theories.

In 1905, when he was 26 years old, Einstein worked as a clerk at the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland. In his spare time, he wrote and then submitted a series of five scientific papers to a leading German physics journal. This alone was remarkable, as scientists usually submit a couple of papers a year, working on them full time. In addition, three of these papers were revolutionary, providing the foundation for modern physics.

Transforming physics
Einstein’s first paper used mathematics to explain the motion of particles in a liquid or gas, such as dust particles moving in air. In another paper, Einstein explained how light can be transformed into electricity. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for this explanation.



Famous equation:
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

In his third paper, he described the complicated Special Theory of Relativity. This theoryexplains how measurements change when you travel very fast — almost as fast as light travels. To mark the 100th anniversary of these achievements, 2005 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Physics, also known as the Einstein year.

Great minds think alike
In later years, Einstein developed his General Theory of Relativity, which explains how gravity works for very massive objects like black holes. The equations also indicated that the universe should be either expanding or collapsing. However, Einstein observed that stars do not appear to move away from or toward each other, and he rejected that prediction. He added a factor to his theory to make the universe motionless.


ENLARGE

Edwin Hubble:
Using California's
Mount Wilson
Observatory

A few years later,astronomer Edwin Hubble, for whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named, became famous for showing that galaxies existed outside our Milky Way Galaxy. He also showed that the farther away a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it appeared to be moving away. Hubble was the first to explain that thisobservation meant the universe was expanding.

When Einstein learned of Hubble’s work, he realized his theory had correctly predicted the universe’s expansion. He considered his disbelief of his own theory the greatest blunder of his life. Scientists now have proven Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and use it, along with new telescope technology, to help them discover more about the expanding universe.

Legacy of a genius
If the universe is expanding today, then it must have been smaller in the past. In fact, the universe must have a beginning. If scientists can figure out how fast the universe is expanding, they can work backward to find out how long the universe has been expanding. This calculation yields the age of the universe and answers several of the basic questions we have concerning where we came from and how we got here.

Before the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, estimates for the universe’s age ranged between 10 and 20 billion years old. One of the three primary scientific goals of the Hubble mission is to determine the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. In 1999, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to narrow down the age of universe to between 10 and 14 billion years old. Further studies with Hubble and other telescopes yielded an age of about 13.7 billion years old.

These results, and many of the groundbreaking discoveries of the last century, still rely upon Einstein’s work. His ideas have provided a solid and stable framework upon which much of our knowledge of the universe is built.

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EINSTEIN 20 FACTS:

1. Einstein's great breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his headrather than the lab.

2. Albert Einstein considered himself an agnostic, not an atheist.

3. Einstein was a slow learner as a child and spoke very slowly.

4. The pathologist who made Einstein body's autopsy stole his brain and kept it in a jar for 20 years.

5. Einstein's Nobel Prize money went to his ex-wife as a divorce settlement.

6. Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel which he politely declined.

7. Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam and had to reapply a year later.

8. Einstein never received a Nobel prize for relativity. It was actually for the photoelectric effect.

9. Einstein was famous for having a bad memory. He could not remember names, dates and phone numbers.

10. Einstein had an illegitimate daughter born in 1902.

11. Einstein, Darwin, Allan Poe & Saddam Hussein, all married their first cousins.

12. Austrian physicist Friedrich Hasenohrl published the basic equation E = mc2 a year before Einstein did.

13. Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.

14. Yoda, from Star Wars, was modeled after the appearance of Albert Einstein.

15. Albert Einstein had no car of his own and he also never learned how to drive.

16. Albert Einstein didn't like to wear socks.

17. Albert Einstein's brain had a parietal lobe that was 15% larger than the average brain.

18. Galileo Galilei was Albert Einstein's favorite scientist.

19. Albert Einstein denounced segregation, calling it a "disease of white people" and worked against racism in America.

20. Hours before his death,Einstein was still attempting to prove his Theory of Everything.

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Albert Einstein Facts
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of all time. Both his image and brilliant work on theoretical physics live on today and he serves as an inspiration to young scientists around the world.

Read on for interesting facts, quotes and information about Albert Einstein.


1. Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 and died on the 18th of April 1955.


2. Born in Germany to a Jewish family, Einstein made many contributions to the field of theoretical physics.


3. Even when very young, Einstein showed great ability in both math’s and science. He was naturally curious and had a brilliant analytical mind.


4. Einstein worked in a patent office evaluating patents for electromagnetic devices not long after he graduated.


5. He produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc² (energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared).


6. He is also well known for his theory of relativity. Special relativity being introduced in his 1905 paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” before Einstein developed the theory of general relativity between the years of 1907 and 1915.


7. Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.


8. He worked on many other influential theories and projects including: the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, Brownian motion, an explanation for capillary action and much more.


9. Famous Albert Einstein quotes include: "Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed."


10. "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin."


11. "Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."


12. "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Albert Einstein

He was the greatest genius of our times whose contributions to physics have been matched only by a handful of others in history. Even so, nowadays Einstein is associated just with one formula: E = mc2. It has been called the most famous formula in the world, and even people who have no idea what mass-energy equivalence is still know it. However, there was a lot more to the man than that.

1. He never failed math. This is a popular “fact” promoted on the internet, maybe in an attempt to relate to genius. However, it is simply not true. Overall, Einstein was an average student, but math was one area where he excelled, unsurprisingly.

2. Einstein encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb. His involvement is often misinterpreted, with some claiming that he helped create the atom bomb. In reality, what he did was write a letter to President FDR encouraging him to begin work on such a weapon, which led to the Manhattan Project. Although a dedicated pacifist and, later, an anti-nuke spokesman, Einstein was convinced that America needed the atomic bomb before the Nazis.

3. He was a great musician. If the whole “genius” thing didn’t work out, Einstein could have become a violinist. His mother played piano so he had the love of music instilled in him—via violin lessons—at the young age of five.

4. He could have been the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.

5. He married his cousin. After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, he married his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. He was, actually, quite a bad husband to his first wife in their later years. He had affairs he never tried to hide, he moved the entire family to Berlin without discussion, and treated her more as a servant than a wife.

6. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. This alone isn’t particularly surprising. What is surprising is the fact that he didn’t receive it for the general or special theory of relativity, but rather for the photoelectric effect.

7. He loved to sail. Ever since university, Einstein sailed as a hobby. But by his own admission, he never made a particularly good sailor. In fact, he didn’t even know how to swim.

8. He really didn’t like socks, and usually didn’t wear them. In fact, in a letter to Elsa, he bragged about getting away “without wearing socks” while at Oxford.

9. He had an illegitimate daughter. This wasn’t known until the 1980s, but according to correspondence between Albert and Mileva it was determined that the two had a daughter in 1902 called Lieserl. At one point, all mention of her in letters stopped so her fate is unknown.

10. His brain was stolen. After Einstein died, the pathologist who did his autopsy took his brain without permission. He eventually got the permission necessary from Einstein’s son, but he was fired from Princeton when he refused to turn the brain over. He kept it for over forty years before finally returning it in 1998.

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Interesting Facts About Albert Einstein Einstein

He Hated Scrabble

Aside from his favourite past-time sailing (”the sport which demands the least energy”), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he told the New York Times, “When I get through with work I don’t want anything that requires the working of the mind.”

He Liked His Feet Naked

“When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in the sock,” he once said. “So I stopped wearing socks.” Einstein was also a fanatical slob, refusing to “dress properly” for anyone. Either people knew him or they didn’t, he reasoned - so it didn’t matter either way.

He Was A Rotten Speller

Although he lived for many years in the United States and was fully bilingual, Einstein claimed never to be able to write in English because of “the treacherous spelling”. He never lost his distinctive German accent either, summed up by his catch-phrase “I vill a little t’ink”.

He Smoked Like A Chimney

A life member of the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club, Einstein was quoted as saying: “Pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment of human affairs.” He once fell into the water during a boating expedition but managed heroically to hold on to his pipe.

He Loathed Science Fiction

Lest it distort pure science and give people the false illusion of scientific understanding, he recommended complete abstinence from any type of science fiction. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” He also thought people who claimed to have seen flying saucers should keep it to themselves.

He Wasn’t Much Of A Musician

Einstein would relax in his kitchen with his trusty violin, stubbornly trying to improvise something of a tune. When that didn’t work, he’d have a crack at Mozart.

Alcohol Was Not His Preferred Drug

At a press conference upon his arrival to New York in 1930, he said jokingly of Prohibition: “I don’t drink, so it’s all the same to me.” In fact, Einstein had been an outspoken critic of “passing laws which cannot be enforced”.

He Equated Monogamy With Monotony

“All marriages are dangerous,” he once told an interviewer. “Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an incident.” He was notoriously unfaithful as a husband, prone to falling in love with somebody else directly after the exchanging of vows.

His Memory Was Shot

Believing that birthdays were for children, his attitude is summed up in a letter he wrote to his girlfriend Mileva Maric: “My dear little sweetheart … first, my belated cordial congratulations on your birthday yesterday, which I forgot once again.”

His Cat Suffered Depression

Fond of animals, Einstein kept a house cat which tended to get depressed whenever it rained. Ernst Straus recalls him saying to the melancholy cat: “I know what’s wrong, dear fellow, but I don’t know how to turn it off.”



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Albert Einstein was three or four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read, and slouched his way through school. He also had some trouble remembering his address - Later he saw that light travels as both a wave and as particles called quanta, mostly because it has to ... And Einstein also got rid of the ether as a valid concept of physics. And he went on to find that Light had mass, and space and time were simply space-time - and the universe might be shaped like a saddle. After Einstein emigrated to the United States in 1933, his every bon mot was duly recorded, and his personal quirks, such as very rarely wearing socks, were eagerly added to a fast-growing legend about the Einstein, and no longer Einstein the physicist. Einstein's famous absentmindedness was not always so benign. In fact, he was unkind to his first wife, the physicist Mileva Maric, and at best distant with his second wife, cousin Elsa, and their son. Below are some Albert Einstein anecdotes. A few of them may be apocrypical. Some may work for our good. Albert Einstein Timeline 1879 Born March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany 1884 Compass triggers life-long interest 1898 Falls in love with Mileva Maric 1902 (a) Their daugher Lieserl is born. (b) Albert begins work at Swiss patent office 1905 Publishes three seminal papers on theoretical physics, including the special theory of relativity 1914 (a) He declares that resolving the quantum issue to be the central problem of physics. (b) Becomes professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. (c) Divorce proceedings with Mileva begins. 1915 Completes his general theory of relativity: Space is no longer the box the universe comes in; instead, space and time, matter and energy are proved to be locked together in a "most intimate embrace" 1917 Einstein collapses and, near death, falls seriously ill. He is nursed back to health by his cousin Elsa. 1919 Albert marries Elsa 1922 Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1921 1933 Emigrates with Elsa, mainly because of the Nazi take-over in Germany. Comes to Princeton, New Jersey, where he assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study 1936 Elsa dies 1939 Writes a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and warns against Germany's building an atomic bomb 1940 Becomes an American citizen (while continuing being a Swiss citizen). 1955 Dies on April 18. Albert Einstein Anecdotes OTTO Neugebauer, the historian of ancient mathematics, told a story about the boy Einstein that he characterises as a "legend," but that seems fairly authentic.) As he was a late talker, his parents were worried. At last, at the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot." Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before. Albert replied, "Because up to now everything was in order." EINSTEIN came to Princeton University in 1935 and was asked what he would require for his study. he replied: "A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket to hold all of my mistakes." ONCE Einstein sent this reply, along with a page full of diagrams, to a fifteen-year-old girl who had written for help on a homework assignment: "Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are much greater." RIVERSIDE Church in Manhattan planned to put up statues of the eight most famous scientists who ever lived, according to their liking. Einstein was included. When asked how it felt to be an "immortalized" living scientist in this way, Einstein answered, "From now on, and for the rest of my life, I must be very careful not to commit a scandal." SPEAKING at the Sorbonne during the 1930s, Einstein said, "If my relativity theory is verified, Germany will proclaim me a German and France will call me a citizen of the world. But if my theory is proved false, France will emphasize that I am a German and Germany will say that I am a Jew." EINSTEIN went to look at a kibbutz while on a visit to Palestine in 1921. He asked many questions of the 22-year-old girl who was head of the young community. One question was, "What is the relationship here of men to women?" Thinking that he was one of the many visitors who thought that women were common property in the kibbutz, she stammered, very embarrassed, "But, Herr Professor, each man here has one woman." Einstein's eyes twinkled. He took the girl's hand and said, "Don't be alarmed at my question - by 'relationship' we physicists understand something rather simple, namely how many men are there and how many women." EINSTEIN was asked by his hostess at a social gathering to explain his theory of relativity. Said the great mathematician, "Madam, I was once walking in the country on a hot day with a blind friend, and said that I would like a drink of milk." "Milk?" said my friend, "Drink I know; but what is milk?" "A white liquid," I replied. "Liquid I know; but what is white?" "The colour of a swan's feathers." "Feathers I know; what is a swan?" "A bird with a crooked neck." "Neck I know; but what is this crooked?" "Thereupon I lost patience. I seized his arm and straightened it. "That's straight," I said; and then I bent it at the elbow. "That's crooked." "Ah!" said the blind man, "Now I know what you mean by milk!" [Of] THE CLASSICAL scholar Gilbert Murray one day encountered Einstein sitting in the quadrangle of Christ Church, Oxford. The exiled scientist was deep in thought, with a serene and cheerful expression on his face. Murray asked him what he was thinking about. "I am thinking that, after all, this is a very small star," Einstein answered. ONE DAY during his tenure as a professor, Albert Einstein was visited by a student. "The questions on this year's exam are the same as last year's!" the young man exclaimed. "Yes," Einstein answereed, "but this year all the answers are different." THE SCULPTOR Jacob Epstein tells this story: "When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. "Were I wrong," he said, "one professor would have been enough." [Of] EINSTEIN'S wife was once asked if she understood her husband's theory of relativity. "No," she replied loyally, "but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted." EINSTEIN once declared that his second greatest idea after the theory of relativity was to add an egg while cooking soup in order to produce a soft-boiled egg without having an extra pot to wash. IN 1931 Charlie Chaplin invited Albert Einstein, who was visiting Hollywood, to a private screening of his new film City Lights. As the two men drove into town together, passersby waved and cheered. Chaplin turned to his guest and explained: "The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me." IN 1898, young Albert Einstein applied for admission to the Munich Technical Institute and was turned down. The young man, the Institute declared, "showed no promise" as a student. By 1905, he had formulated his special theory of relativity. SIR WILLIAM Rothenstein was in Berlin doing a portrait of Einstein. The mathematician was always accompanied to the studio by a solemn, academic looking individual who sat in a corner throughout the sittings. Einstein, not wishing to waste any time, was putting forth certain tentative theories, to which the silent companion replied only by an occasional nod or shake of the head. When the work was concluded, Rothenstein, who was curious, asked Einstein who his companion was. "That's my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a good mathematician . . ." [Of] SHORTLY after the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915, the Russian mathematician Alexander Friedmann was surprised to discover that Einstein had failed to notice a remarkable prediction made by his equations: that the universe is expanding. This prediction was later confirmed by observations made by Edwin Hubble in the 1920s. The cause of Einstein's oversight? He had made a stupid error in his calculations: He had divided by zero, which amounts to a big "sin" in mathematics. "WHEN I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock," Einstein once recalled. "So I stopped wearing socks." EINSTEIN and an assistant, having finished a paper, searched the office for a paper clip. They finally found one, too badly bent for use. They looked for an implement to straighten it, and after opening many more drawers came upon a whole box of clips. Einstein at once shaped one into a tool to straighten the bent clip. His assistant, puzzled, asked why he was doing this when there was a whole boxful of usable clips. "Once I am set on a goal it becomes difficult to deflect me," said Einstein. [Einstein said to an assistant at Princeton that this was the most characteristic anecdote that could be told of him.] ONE OF Einstein's colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled. "No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?" Einstein claimed never to memorise anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes.