1 Warm up Questions 2 Albert Einstein 3 The Yo Yo Before Reading Main Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading 4 The Nobel Prize 5 Woolworth s Before Reading 1 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Warm up Questions 1 Was Einstein bright in his early childhood Give examples 2 What is his greatest contribution to the mankind 3 What do you know about the life of Einstein 4 Do you think Einstein was responsible for the search work on the atomic bomb Why 5 Describe the appearance of Einstein A Brief Introduction to Albert Einstein Einstein s Chronology Theory of Relativity Atomic Bomb Fame and Social Activities Before Reading 2 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Albert Einstein German born American Physicist and Nobel Laureate 1879 1955 Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein Before Reading 2 1 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Albert Einstein whose Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity revolutionized scientific perceptions of the universe is acknowledged along with Newton as one of history s greatest physicists Son of free thinking cultured Jews Einstein was unable to speak until he was three and displayed no special promise Anti Semitism also hampered his talent when it began to emerge He became a Swiss citizen in 1901 obtaining a doctorate from the University of Bern in 1905 His research which ended in the famous equation E mc2 was published in the same year After World War I Einstein s fame extended beyond the scientific community and in 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics During the 1920s he regarded the rise of the Nazis in Germany with horror eventually emigrating to the U S where in 1933 he took up a post at Princeton University In 1939 his early warnings of German scientific attempts to make an atomic bomb prompted the start of the Manhattan Project Before Reading 2 2 1 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading Date Event March 14 1879 1903 1905 Born in Ulm Germany the elder child of a businessman and a musical mother Married Mileva Maric his classmate at the polytechnic They had two sons but eventually divorced Published three ground breaking papers on the motion of particles the nature of light and the relationship between energy and inertia Before Reading 2 2 2 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading 1914 1933 1916 1921 1930 Published his Autobiographical Notes Published his General Theory of Relativity Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in Berlin Awarded the Nobel Prize for physics Before Reading 2 2 3 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading October 1939 November 18 1952 April 18 1955 Declined an offer to become head of state of Israel Died in hospital in Princeton Wrote to Franklin Roosevelt President of the United States on the possibility of manufacturing a nuclear bomb and the need to preempt the Nazis BeforeReading 2 3 1 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading 1 A brief introduction In 1905 Einstein received his doctorate from the University of Zurich for a theoretical dissertation on the dimensions of molecules and he also published three theoretical papers of central importance to the development of 20th century physics On the basis of the General Theory of Relativity Einstein accounted for the previously unexplained variations in the orbital motion of the planets and predicted the bending of starlight in the vicinity of a massive body such as the sun The confirmation of this latter phenomenon during an eclipse of the sun in 1919 became a media event and Einstein s fame spread worldwide BeforeReading 2 3 2 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading 2 Einstein explains the equivalence of energy and matter It followed from the Special Theory of Relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind Furthermore the equation E is equal to mc squared in which energy is put equal to mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa The mass and energy were in fact equivalent according to the formula mentioned before This was demonstrated by Cockcroft and Walton in 1932 experimentally BeforeReading 2 4 Before ReadingGlobal ReadingDetailed ReadingAfter Reading When Hitler came to power Einstein immediately decided to leave Germany for the United States He took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton New Jersey In 1939 Einstein collaborated with several other physicists in writing a letter to President Franklin D Roosevelt pointing out the possibility of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government was embarking on such a course The letter which bore only Einstein s signature helped lend urgency to efforts in the U S to build the a