Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

E=mc2. What does that mean? Who invented it? Albert Einstein, of course!

Biography

Einstein came to the world on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. He spent most of his time in Munich. His father owned an electronics company and Albert learned a lot about sci+ol. He did not finish school in Germany, but ended it in Switzerland. Einstein would later move back to Bern, Germany and work in a patent office. Albert immigrated to the US in 1933. He was fleeing from the Nazis in Germany who didn’t like Jewish people. If he had stayed in Germany, he would not have been able to hold a teaching position at the university as a Jewish person. At one point the Nazis had a bounty on his head. In 1940 Einstein became a US citizen. Sadly, on 18 April,1955, he died from Abdominal aortic aneurysm.

E=mc2 and Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

Albert Einstein had many discoveries as a scientist, but was most known for his Theory Of Relativity. This theory changed much in the way scientists looked at the world and set the foundation of many modern inventions such as the nuclear bomb and nuclear energy. One equation from the theory is E=mc2. In this formula, "c" is the speed of light and is a constant. It is assumed to be the fastest speed possible in the universe. This formula explains how energy (E) is related to mass (m). The Theory of Relativity explained a lot of how time and distance may change due to the "relative" or different speed of the object and the observer.