what was Albert Einstein made famous for?

Question

I know it sounds like a funny question but my sister has this question for her homework, we know he was an inventor but we dont know what actually made him famous

Answer 1

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bleinstein.htm
Here is a link to a site that tells all about him and what he did. Hope it helps!

Answer 2

He was a German born physicist in 1879. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize for science. He moved to the USA because of the Nazis during the second world war, as he was part Jewish. Einsteins ideas in science were so new and strange that for many years ordinary people used to say that no one else could possibly understand them. He was famous for his therories about relativity {time and space] and also about quantum physics. Nearly all branches of physics were changed by his theories and without them lasers, television,computers, space travel and many other things would never have been developed.

Answer 3

Albert Einstein was not so much an inventor as he was a discoverer. He is the most wellknown of scientists of the 20th century. His discoveries and theories have enabled mankind to have a better understanding of the 'rules' governing the life and the universe.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Einstein's many contributions to physics include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity which extended the principle of relativity to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of gravitation. His other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, classical problems of statistical mechanics and their application to quantum theory, an explanation of the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory), a theory of radiation including stimulated emission, the conception of a unified field theory, and the geometrization of physics.

Answer 4

I think it is worth mentioning that Einstein also received the Nobel prize in Physics in 1921, not for his theories of special and general relativity, but for the Photoelectric Effect.
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Answer 5

E=mc 2

Answer 6

He discovered the Theory of Relativity.