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...
To quote Albert Einstein, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" (Einstein). Here, Einstein is implying that at the point of World War III, humans would have developed weapons of mass destruction so powerful that they would destroy civilization and send the survivors back into the Stone Age. The types of weapons Einstein hinted at could possibly be a part of biological warfare. ...
Albert Einstein was undoubtedly one of the greatest thinkers of his time. ... Albert Camus, a Frenchman existentialist writer who furthered the thoughts of Nietzsche, noticed the absurdity of man striving for order and coherence in a world that was so consistently in a state of disorder and incoherence. ... I am going to have to apply Einstein's theory of relativity to this comparison between the anxieties of today and the early twentieth century. ...
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...
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...
August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...
. @ 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...
Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce an atomic bomb first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein, a famous scientist during that time, to use his influence and write a letter to president FDR, pleading for support to further research the power of nuclear fission (Badash 237). ...
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). ...