1. Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. ... Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. ... Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. ... Although young Albert was intrigued by certain mysteries of scie...
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Munich as a non-practicing Jew. ... Albert took much longer to learn to talk than other children, and his parents feared he might be retarded, but he was born a genius. ... It gave Albert an introduction to the power of science. ... Max would bring Albert books to read. ... In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan, Italy but Einstein remained in Munich. ...
What would it be like? George Moschouris Someone can do a lot of things on the computer today. You can serf the internet, download music, and write e-mails. Just think what the leaders of the world could have done with a computer in their day. If President Hoover had a Dell in his day w...
Project Rainbow involved some of the greatest scientists to ever live such as Nikola Telsa , and Albert Einstein. ... Yet according to Einstein's Unified field theory This would not only bend the light around the ship but also bend space and time. ... Einstein believed that this was due to the bending of space and time. ...
Earlier in the century, Albert Einstein predicted that mass could be converted into energy early in the century and was confirmed experimentally by John D. ... They insisted that Albert Einstein inform President Roosevelt about the possibility of the Germans making an atomic bomb. ...
The United States had started the developing the bombs in 1939, when Albert Einstein wrote a letter to F.D.Roosevelt, regarding the theory of special relativities, "It may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium . that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed" (Lawton). The original reason that led the U.S. to develop Einstein's theory, was the nuclear race between the US and Germany. ... " Einstein also commented that had he known then, that his discovery of the nuclear theories would lead to this, he would have become...
Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place, not, because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and doing about it. You and your country can unfortunately be classified as one of those who "do nothing about it." Your decision to condone rather than to participate in t...
Dear soldiers, To all those entombed in the USS Arizona. I am writing a letter to all of the brave soldiers trapped underneath the ocean in the battleship, the Arizona. You have died graciously and courageously. We are writing this letter to inform you of some facts about the war that you might h...
On August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 were days in history like no other (Alperovitz 2). Only one country in history has ever used an atomic bomb against another nation, the United States of America, code named the Manhattan Project (Lewis 1). The atomic bombs were being developed to use against Japa...
How can we have a safe world when people started favoring security over freedom? Thomas Jefferson once said, "A person who chooses security over freedom deserves neither." People are choosing to have surveillance and weapons to defend themselves from upcoming attacks that may or may not occur, rathe...
. @ Vichy o Led by Marshall Henri Petain (WW1 war hero) May 26-June 4, 1940 Allies successfully evacuate 350,000 of the 400,000 trapped by the German defeat of France (blitzkrieg) o Among the evacuated is Charles De Gaulle Forms the basis for a Free French government-in-exile July 10, 1940 Beginning of the BATTLE OF BRITAIN o Hitler attempts to bomb England into submission in preparation for his planned invasion o After 6 months Hitler abandons his plans to invade due to his losses inflicted by the RAF o He mistakenly concentrated his air force upon London and other population...
There were many defections in history starting back in World War II when famous people like Albert Einstein defected to the use because the Germans discriminated again him being Jewish (pg. 124-5, Vol. 9 Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia). ...