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This PDF file contains most of the text of the Web exhibit “Einstein – Image and Impact” athttp://www.aip.org/history/einstein. NOT included are many secondary pages reached by clickingon the illustrations, which contain some additional information and photo credits. You must alsovisit the Web exhibit to explore hyperlinks within the exhibit and to other exhibits, and to hear voice clips, for which the text is supplied here.Brought to you byThe Center for History of Physics Copyright © 1996-2004 - American Institute of Physics
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Table of Contents
Formative Years I 3
Was Einstein’s Brain Different?
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Formative Years II 5Formative Years III 7Formative Years IV
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The Great Works I 9
Atoms in a Crystal…
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E=mc
2
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Einstein Explains the Equivalence of Energy and Matter
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The Great Works II 15World Fame I 17
A Gravitational Lens…
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World Fame II 19Public Concerns I 21Public Concerns II 23
Einstein Speaks on the Fate of the European Jews
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Public Concerns III 25The Quantum and the Cosmos I 27
You’re Looking at Quanta…
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The Quantum and the Cosmos II 31
A Black Hole…
32The Quantum and the Cosmos: At Home 33The Nuclear Age I 34The Nuclear Age II 36
Einstein Speaks on Nuclear Weapons and World Peace…
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Nuclear Age: At Home 39Science and Philosophy I 41
Can the Laws of Physics be Unified?
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Science and Philosophy II 44The World As I See It, An Essay By Einstein 45Einstein’s Third paradise, By Gerald Holton 47Einstein’s Time, By Peter Galison 54How Did Einstein Discover Relativity? By John Stachel 65Einstein on the Photoelectric Effect, By David Cassidy 75Einstein on Brownian Motion, By David Cassidy 78An Albert Einstein Chronology 81Einstein Chronology for 1905 83Off the Net: Books on Einstein 85More Einstein Info & Links 90Einstein Site Contents 92Exhibit Credits 93
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Einstein's parents, Hermannand Pauline , middle-class Germans.
"I was the son of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents," Einstein recalled.
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing beforeus like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. Thecontemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."
The housewhere Einstein was born.
One story Einstein liked to tell about his childhood was of a "wonder" hesaw when he was four or five years old: a magnetic compass. Theneedle's invariable northward swing, guided by an invisible force, profoundly impressed the child. The compass convinced him that therehad to be "something behind things, something deeply hidden." Even as asmall boy Einstein was self-sufficient and thoughtful. According tofamily legend he was a slow talker at first, pausing to consider what hewould say. His sister remembered the concentration and perseverancewith which he would build up houses of cards to many stories. The boy'sthought was stimulated by his uncle, an engineer, and by a medicalstudent who ate dinner once a week at the Einsteins'.
"At the age of 12, I experienced a wonder in a booklet dealing with Euclidean planegeometry, which came into my hands at the beginning of a school year. Here wereassertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point,which -- though by no means evident -- could nevertheless be proved with such certaintythat any doubt appeared to be out of the question. This lucidity and certainty made anindescribable impression on me."
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