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ALBERT EINSTEIN
There are a number of points I'd like to make:

1. Early life and education.

2. All against Einstein
3. Scientific trajectory.
4. The articles of 1905.
5. Photoelectric effect.
6. The theory of relativity.
7. Political activity.
8. Death.

1. Early life and education.

Albert Einstein was born in the city of Ulm on March 14, 1879. He was the eldest
son of Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch, both Jews, whose families came from
Swabia. The following year they moved to Munich, where the father settled down,
along with his brother Jakob, like trader in the electrotechnical novelties of the time.
Little Albert was a quiet child, and had a slow intelectual development. In 1894 he
moved to Milan; Einstein remained in Munich to finish his secondary studies. In the
autumn of 1896 he began his studies at the Eidgenossische Technische
Hochschule in Zurich, where he was a student of the mathematician Hermann
Minkowski.

In 1903 he married Mileva Maric, a former classmate in Zurich, with whom he had
two children: Hans Albert and Eduard, born respectively in 1904 and 1910. In 1919
they divorced, and Einstein remarried with his cousin Elsa.
2. All against Einstein.

The controversial figure of the German scientist aroused bitter debates in his day.
A group of enemies of his theories in Nazi Germany came to create an association
against him, and even a man was accused of promoting his murder.

To make matters worse, the book entitled A hundred authors against Einstein,
whose purpose was evident, was published. Genius merely said, "Why a hundred?
If I were wrong, I would only have one”.

3. Scientific trajectory.

In 1901 appeared the first scientific work of Einstein: it was about the capillary
attraction. He published two papers in 1902 and 1903 on the statistical foundations
of thermodynamics, corroborating experimentally that the temperature of a body is
due to the agitation of its molecules, a theory still discussed at that time.
4. The articles of 1905.

In 1905 he finished his doctorate presenting a thesis titled “A new determination of

the molecular dimensions”. That same year he wrote four fundamental articles on
small and large-scale physics. In them he explained the Brownian motion, the
photoelectric effect and developed special relativity and mass-energy equivalence.
Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect would provide him with the Nobel Prize
for Physics in 1921.

5. Photoelectric effect.

The first of his articles of 1905 was titled "A heuristic point of view on the
production and transformation of light". In it Einstein proposed the idea of "how
much" light (now called photons) and showed how this concept could be used to
explain the photoelectric effect.
Why is this important? This article constituted one of the basic pillars of quantum
mechanics.

6. The theory of relativity.

In November 1915, Einstein presented a series of lectures at the Prussian

Academy of Sciences in which he described the theory of general relativity. The
last of these talks concluded with the presentation of the equation that replaces
Newton's law of gravity. The theory provided the basis for the study of cosmology
and made it possible to understand the essential characteristics of the Universe,
many of which would not be discovered until after Einstein's death.

7. Political activity.

The events of World War I pushed Einstein to engage politically, taking sides. He
feels contempt for violence, bullying, aggression, injustice. He was one of the most
well-known members of the German Democratic Party (DDP). Albert Einstein was
a convinced pacifist.

8. Death.

On April 16, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced an internal hemorrhage caused by

the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been surgically
reinforced by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948. Einstein rejected the surgery, saying, "I
want to leave when I want. It is bad taste to artificially prolong life. I've done my
part, it's time to go. I will do it with elegance".

He died at Princeton Hospital early on April 18, 1955 at 76 years of age. On the
table was the draft of the speech before millions of Israelis for the seventh
anniversary of the independence of Israel that would never pronounce, and that
began: "Today I speak not as a US citizen, nor as a Jew, but as a being human”.

That's all I have to say about the life of the most important genius of the 20th
century
 REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
https://www.revistadelibros.com/articulos/bibliografia-sobre-albert-
einstein