by Gary S. Berger | Nov 30, 2023 | Albert Einstein Biography, Einstein Nobel Prize, Famous Equation
Albert Einstein is known throughout the world for his theory of relativity. He was only 16 years old when he made his first “rather childish” thought experiments relating to it, as he later recalled. “If a person could run after a light wave with the same speed as...
by Gary S. Berger | Oct 22, 2023 | Albert Einstein Biography, Einstein Nobel Prize, Famous Equation
Q: What did Einstein say about imagination? A: Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” This quote is featured on the opening page and the back cover of Einstein: The Man and His Mind. In it,...
by Gary S. Berger | Aug 28, 2023 | Albert Einstein Biography, Einstein Nobel Prize, Einstein Writers, Famous Equation
Albert Einstein published four ground-breaking papers in rapid succession in 1905 in Annalen der Physik. They are his “miracle year” papers. Einstein was a clerk 3rd class at the Swiss patent office in Bern at the time, having been unable to obtain an...
by Gary S. Berger | Jun 1, 2023 | Einstein Nobel Lecture, Einstein Nobel Prize
Einstein’s Nobel Lecture Centennial Albert Einstein gave his Nobel prize lecture entitled Fundamental Ideas and Problems of the Theory of Relativity on July 11, 1923. The centennial of this event is a reminder of the remarkable history of Einstein’s Nobel...
by Gary S. Berger | Oct 7, 2022 | Einstein Nobel Prize
Albert Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics a year late, in November 1922, “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” It had taken almost two decades, and sixty-two nominations...