what did albert einstein discover?

Answer 1

It try and make this simple. Basically he discovered the theory of relativity. It basically says that time is not constant. Depending on how fast you are traveling, time can be variable. The faster you travel, the more time slows down. He did not discover the atom bomb that was done with the manhattan project after einstein wrote a letter to the president encouraging the building of the bomb. Study physics as you get older there many wonderful things to discover......

Answer 2

Albert Einstein discovered the Theory of Relativity, or what is commonly seen as E=MC^2.

Answer 3

Albert Einstein is most famous for the Theory of Relativity and his famous equation E=mc^2.

The interesting thing is he did not win the nobel prize for this. He won the nobel prize for the Photoelectric Effect, which allows a scientist to study the diffraction pattern of a material to be able to tell its composition.

Answer 4

Maths and science subject wise. "Einstein's researches are, of course, well chronicled and his more important works include Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). Among his non-scientific works, About Zionism (1930), Why War? (1933), My Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the most important." Wikipedia so yeah =]

Answer 5

Einstein laid the groundwork for modern physics and nuclear engineering and the theoretical math behind quantum mechanics...not bad a d average student who consistently failed math and could not remember how to tie his shoes

Answer 6

He discovered the Atomic Bomb.

Answer 7

e= mc^2

Answer 8

That God was Real.

Answer 9

Maybe this will help:

March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955
Physicist and Mathematician
Nobel Laureate for Physics 1921
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."
- Albert Einstein -

Einstein was born in Bavaria on March 14, 1879, and spent his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small shop that manufactured electric machinery. He did not talk until the age of three, but even as a youth he showed a brilliant curiosity about nature and an ability to understand difficult mathematical concepts. At the age of 12 he taught himself geometry.

Einstein hated the dull regimentation and unimaginative spirit of school in Munich. When repeated business failure led the family to leave Germany for Milan, Italy, Einstein, who was then 15 years old, used the opportunity to withdraw from the school. He spent a year with his parents in Milan, and when it became clear that he would have to make his own way in the world, he finished secondary school in Arrau, Switzerland, and entered the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zürich.

In the spring of 1905, after considering the nature of matter and radiation and how they interacted in some unified world picture for ten years, Einstein realized that the crux of the problem lay not in a theory of matter but in a theory of measurement. He was able to provide a consistent and correct description of physical events without making special assumptions about the nature of matter or radiation, but virtually no one understood Einstein's argument.

In 1905, Einstein published five papers. The first ("Generation and Transformation of Light") was a physical explanation of the photoelectric effect (electrons emitted from a solid when irradiated by light). Behavior suggests that light consists of quanta, bundles of energy which behave somewhat like particles. This contribution to quantum mechanics eventually earned Einstein a Nobel Prize, in 1921.

A second paper ("Motion of Suspended Particles in the Kinetic Theory") provided a mathematical explanation of Brownian motion. The most famous paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" introduced the Special Theory of Relativity (Einstein later used Special to denote the case of uniform motion, in which only inertial frames of reference are involved).

His star began to rise within the physics community. He then moved rapidly upward in the German-speaking academic world; his first academic appointment was in 1909 at the University of Zürich. In 1911 he moved to the German-speaking university at Prague, and in 1912 he returned to the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zürich. Finally, in 1913, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin.

On the basis of the general theory of relativity, Einstein accounted for the previously unexplained variations in the orbital motion of the planets and predicted the bending of starlight in the vicinity of a massive body such as the sun. The confirmation of this latter phenomenon during an eclipse of the sun in 1919 became a media event, and Einstein's fame spread worldwide.

After 1919, Einstein became internationally renowned. He accrued honors and awards, including the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921, from various world scientific societies. His visit to any part of the world became a national event; photographers and reporters followed him everywhere. While regretting his loss of privacy, Einstein capitalized on his fame to further his own political and social views.

Mileva and Albert were lovers as students. She was the only woman studying in Zurich Polytech Institute. But she stopped her thesis work, married Albert, and gave him all the credit. Mileva had a child by him but probably gave their daughter, Lieserl, up for adoption in 1902, because the scandal might hurt his career. They later married. Letters that fellow researchers found make clear--Mileva helped Albert refine many of the ideas for which he became famous. Mileva was devoted to Albert, as a typical Serbian woman. She would do anything to please her husband. Mileva did Albert's university homework, gave up her own physics career for his, took care of their schizophrenic son even after Albert divorced her, and was his scientific partner. (Albert's family was researched by Marija Dokmanovic).

The two social movements that received his full support were pacifism and Zionism. During World War I he was one of a handful of German academics willing to publicly decry Germany's involvement in the war. After the war his continued public support of pacifist and Zionist goals made him the target of vicious attacks by anti-Semitic and right-wing elements in Germany.

Even his scientific theories were publicly ridiculed, especially the theory of relativity. When Hitler came to power, Einstein immediately decided to leave Germany for the United States. He took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. While continuing his efforts on behalf of world Zionism, Einstein renounced his former pacifist stand in the face of the awesome threat to humankind posed by the Nazi regime in Germany.

In 1939 Einstein collaborated with several other physicists in writing a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out the possibility of making an atomic bomb and the likelihood that the German government was embarking on such a course. The letter, which bore only Einstein's signature, helped lend urgency to efforts in the U.S. to build the atomic bomb, but Einstein himself played no role in the work and knew nothing about it at the time.

After the war, Einstein was active in the cause of international disarmament and world government. He continued his active support of Zionism but declined the offer made by leaders of the state of Israel to become president of that country. In the U.S. during the late 1940s and early '50s he spoke out on the need for the nation's intellectuals to make any sacrifice necessary to preserve political freedom. Einstein died in Princeton on April 18, 1955.

Einstein's efforts in behalf of social causes have sometimes been viewed as unrealistic. In fact, his proposals were always carefully thought out. Like his scientific theories, they were motivated by sound intuition based on a shrewd and careful assessment of evidence and observation. Although Einstein gave much of himself to political and social causes, science always came first, because, he often said, only the discovery of the nature of the universe would have lasting meaning.