Albert Einstein: Whose name is synonymous to ‘genius’ | Chai Khana - TheDispatch

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science by The Dispatch Staff.

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He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc², which has been dubbed “the world’s most famous equation”.

He published more than 300 scientific papers and more than 150 non-scientific works. On 5 December 2014, universities and archives announced the release of Einstein’s papers, comprising more than 30,000 unique documents

His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word “Einstein” synonymous with “genius”.

He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”, a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory...

He was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955. During this period, Einstein tried to develop a unified field theory and to refute the accepted interpretation of quantum physics, both unsuccessfully.

During the autopsy, the pathologist of Princeton Hospital, Thomas Stoltz Harvey, removed Einstein’s brain for preservation without the permission of his family, in the hope that the neuroscience of the future would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent.
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