A TRIBUTE TO ALBERT EINSTEIN

Nobody did more to pioneer developments in science and physics than Albert Einstein, who died on 18 April, 1955 aged 76.
His theories of special and general relativity are widely regarded as the most satisfactory model of the universe we live in.
His cartoon features – wild hair and expressive face – are still widely used today to depict crazy or absent-minded scientists.
But there was nothing mad about a man who became the most influential figure in physics in the 20 th century.
Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany, on 14 March, 1879, although they soon moved to Munich where he began his education.
The Einsteins moved on to Italy and a young Albert continued his schooling at Aarau in Switzerland and in 1896 started training to become a teacher in physics and mathematics.
Unable to find a teaching post, he took a job as a technical assistant at the Swiss Patent Office and went on to teach at universities in Prague, Zurich and Berlin. But it was in his spare time that he produced most of his remarkable work.
At the start of his scientific research, he recognised the limitations of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from a bid to reconcile the rules of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field, underlined by his famous equation E=mc2.
He dealt with statistical mechanic conundrums and the problems when they were merged with quantum theory, which led to an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules. His work also led to the photon theory of light.
In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.

Aghilesh .M