How did Albert Einstein become famous?

Question

What did he have to fight within himself?

Not what he was famous for , but what he had to do to beome famous. What he had to do within himself?

what did he do in his child hood that led up to him being famous?

in his early childhood he asked lots of questions about physics

Answer 1

Playing the Eelectric Violin!! Ya!

Answer 2

Einstein didn't have a problem "within himself", regarding his theory of relativity. Like many other physicists, he wanted to figure out a reasonable explanation for the negative results of the Michelson-Morley experiments. He became famous because of the then-outrageous conclusions he had made, which turned out to be correct and verified by experiment.

As with any other serious theoretical physicist, he certainly wrestled with a number of difficult conundrums, but that's how any field of science advances, when new insights are gained from such struggles. In the case of Special Relativity, even though the equations were already understood before his time, he was the first to say, "Well maybe spacetime is really warped after all!", and worked hard to make conceptual sense out of it.

"What did he do as a child that led him to this fame?" It's not anything different from many other high achievers, which is intense interest, focus, and commitment to a particular field of study or activity, very often starting in childhood. Albert had always been fascinated with physics, which was one of the reasons for his relatively mediocre school performance, because he tended to find other subjects uninteresting. Taken to the extreme, people like that would be called savants. But actually, Albert was otherwise pretty normal in life, and no, he was not a failure with the women, but to the contrary.

To term this as some kind of a "fight within himself" is simply wrongheaded. Einstein was quite happy with his own personal adventure in his theories from early on, he was not having to deal with demons of any sort. He just demanded to know the answers.

Answer 3

Albert Einstein did most of his well known work early in his career; his famous equation E=MC2 is a mathematical term indicating Energy equals Mass at the speed of light squared;
E is energy; M is mass and C is the Speed of Light squared (or times 2) (186,000 miles per second);
In this equation, Einstein appears to proove Nothing can Travel Faster than the Speed of Light; further, the equation prooved time actually slowed down at near or at light speed; in other words, if you left Earth in a ship, went to the center of the Galaxy at light speed, 30,000 years would pass on Earth, yet, on your ship, you would percieve only 30 years as passing; so, if you left at age 20, you would arrive at the center of the Galaxy (milky way) at age 50, yet, everything on Earth would be dust as 30,000 years would have passed there. There are arguments on this issue to date.

Einstein, around 1938-40 or thereabouts, was contacted by another scientist who's name I cannot recall; who advised A.E. that he had a mathematical formula that prooved the Uranium atom could be split; and the splitting would cause a chain reaction releasing an energy source never before seen and in a huge blast; they had no term for it at the time, we call it a Nuclear explosion; I think A.E. refered to it as "atom explosion" A.E. confirmed the equation and verified it by further study...anyway, A.E. and the other scientist determined that Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany were working on such an atom splitting project ; A.E. then wrote a letter to President Roosevelt advising him of the Uranium Atom issue and how it could be made into a weapon; further, they advised they felt the Germans were working on it and we were not. A.E. had a hard time with this, he felt badly that he was telling any Government how to make such a weapon; but felt it better the Americans had it as opposed to Nazi Germany having it first. A.E. was a pacifist who deplored violence and would rather crack jokes and play tricks on people as opposed to creating any weapons; but seeing the Germans would certainly dominate the world with Adolf Hitler as Leader (Furher); the correct thing to do was to tell the Americans first.
Roosevelt then took the information from A.E. and a team was put together to creat such a weapon; the team was headed by Robert Oppenheimer and a bomb was made in the area of white sands New Mexico near Alamagordo.
That's the short story; A.E was famous for telling the American Government about the Unranium atoms instability to form a weapon; and further, his E=mc2 equation,

howzat?

Answer 4

Al published a series of technical papers back in the early 1900's. These came to be known as the general and special theories of relativity. These theories totally revised our thinking about the cosmos. And to a large extent, they revised most of Newton's theories.

The new stuff from Al's theories include:

Gravity bends space itself. In fact, the bent space is gravity; or at least the thing that causes mass to accelerate towards another mass. (There is still a question of the chicken and the egg: does gravity bend space or does bent space cause gravity. In any case, bent space has actually been observed.)

Light will bend around large masses (like galaxies) due to the bend in space from the gravity of those large masses.

E = mc^2...'nuff said.

No inertial rest mass can travel faster than the speed of light (c). It would take an infinite amount of energy to reach v = c.

Time on a near light velocity spaceship will pass slower than time on Earth. Literally, if we could travel near the speed of light, centuries could pass when we land back on Earth after we aged only a year or two aboard the spaceship.

You must admit, this is the stuff scifi can be made of. Yet most of this has been experimentally verified. You can see why the news media, who love bizarre stories, made Einstein world famous back in the early 1900s.

ADDENDUM to answer your additional questions:

Al's childhood was uninspiring. In fact, he did not do all that well in school. However, he was a difficult child. He was afflicted with a genetic disease called Aspergers Syndrome, which is a form of autism. [See source.]

A major symptom of Aspergers is the inability to socialize, to get along with others. Until Aspergers was identified late last century, kids with Aspergers were simply written off as being naughty or nasty kids; no one realized back then that there was a medical cause for their behavior. Einstein never really outgrew the inability to socialize; that was an internal fight he never won.

Although socialization is often lacking, Asperger kids and, later, adults often show selected genius. These are frequently called child prodigies. It is clear that Al was such a kid. Another, current and well-known Asperger kid is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and world's richest person. Bill is a prime example that Asperger kids can grow up and do quite well in the world despite the disease.

Today Asperger kids go to special Asperger classes in grade school if the school is progressive. With careful, trained supervision, such kids can learn to socialize and, if they have it, still retain the genius that also often comes with the syndrome. Unfortunately, most public schools fail to have the special classes and most kids are still written off as nasty or naughty.

Einstein married while working on his PhD. In fact, many people attribute much of the thought going into his first theory of relativity as coming from his first wife, who was also a PhD candidate. Al got his PhD, his wife, Mileva Maric, did not after several attempts. Einstein, who started seeing another woman after he became famous, divorced Mileva and remarried. [See source.]

Answer 5

He helped change the way we think about space and time; nothing in his early life, either personal or academic, remotely suggested that he would achieve anything so remarkable. Perhaps he struggled against the monotony and obscurity of his life - certainly working in the Swiss Patent Office could not have been a challenging job for someone with his undoubted intellect and perseverance.

Answer 6

He published radical theories that contradict classical physics, such as relativity, time dilation, length contraction. He also was a womanizer, he's the man.

Answer 7

The Theory of Realativity. E=MC^2.
Next to Isaac Newton, no one has contributed more since.

Answer 8

The theory of relativity. I don't know what he had to fight, did he have any personality disorders?

Answer 9

He had invention The theory of relativity

Answer 10

well have you ever heard of e=mc squared? yeahh about that. that was albert.