As a scientist, Einstein is generally considered the greatest scientist of all time. His ideas and theories have, directly or indirectly, influenced many areas of the modern world --science, art, and philosophy.
He was so slow that he did not learn how to talk until he was two years old. He could barely pronounce the words without mouthing them silently first. All of his teachers thought that he would never succeed.
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• mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2
• 能量守恒定律 (质能方程）
• Equation for his special theory of relativity.
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Albert Einstein 阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦
Einstein’s personality both as a scientist and as a man.
As a man, “Einstein was a simple, modest and ordinary man.”
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German-born American theoretical physicist.
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His early childhood
In his early childhood he was slow to learn to talk and displayed no special promise.
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Theoretical Physics (理论物理)
A branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.
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Albert Einstein (1879～1955) was born in Germany, to a Jewish family. He was visiting the United States when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and, being Jewish, did not go back to Germany and settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940.
• “the world's most famous equation”
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• photoelectric effect • 光电效应
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect .
A theoretical explanation of how the universe works
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• He is best known for his theory of relativity . He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics 量子力学)