FACT FILE :
Albert Einstein
BORN:
1879, Germany
DIED:
1955, United States
FAMOUS FACTS:
Albert Einstein is one of the most important
scientists who ever lived.
He was a Theoretical Physicist and is celebrated
in this year's International Year of Light since it
is now 100 years since he calculated that E=mc2.
Einstein's ideas are mindblowing! Put simply,
E=mc2 means that even small amounts of mass
can be changed into enormous amounts of
energy. -Plus, if you could travel at almost the
speed of light, time would slow down!
AWARDS:
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1921
FRIGHTENING FACT: Albert Einstein was a Jew. At that time the
German Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler was
making things extremely difficult for Jews. They
even set fire to Einstein's books and named him
as an enemy, so in 1933 he fled to safety in the
United States.
FUN FACT:
Einstein was a brilliant musician, especially on
the violin. He is quoted as saying “If I were not a
physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often
think in music. I live my daydreams in music."
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