Why was my father's father famous?

Question

Why was Albert Einstein famous, I mean, he didn't make many discoveries. Do you think he's famous because of the equation E=MC^2?
Please answer as quick as possible.
Thank you!!

Answer 1

General relativity
Blackholes theory
The IDEA OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, he gave a letter to FDR
Gravitys function
musical violonist
mass bends space
E=mc²
DARKMATTER
Universe is expanding
indirect involvment about the Big Bang

These are the ideas that he thought up, before they were never proven until now. We are just figuring out the ideas around his vision.

Answer 2

First of all, before any of this relativity stuff, Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize for explaining Brownian motion. Without which we'd have had no way to power the ship in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so show some gratitude.

But E= mc^2 was PROFOUND. And he had it as an afterthought. Fourth paragraph from the bottom of a paper on Special Relativity. Until then people had talked about things like kinetic energy, potential energy, and that energy and mass were different. Einstein said that an object at rest has energy proportional to its mass and that this energy can be freed. Nuclear science would not exist without that understanding. But neither would a lot of our understanding of the cosmos.

And then there's general relativity, which describes how space and time are put together. Try defining an orbit or sending a spacecraft to Saturn without understanding that space around the Sun is warped.

The problem is that most people don't understand the rest of his life's work, because it doesn't compress into neat little equations. As Leon Lederman said, "We hope to explain the entire universe in a single simple formula you can wear on your t-shirt."

Einstein predicted (along with Bose) the behavior of bosons at cold temperatures, which wasn't confirmed until 1995. He worked with Schroedinger on his model of an ideal gas. He invented a refrigerator with Leo Szilard. He (and Szilard) was instrumental in convincing Roosevelt to start research into an atomic bomb, although he later regretted it.

Einstein was a great humanitarian. He was a member of the NAACP and spoke in defense of WEB DuBois when the latter was accused of being a communist spy. He was originally part of the group that founded Brandeis University, although he withdrew because of a disagreement over who should serve as the first president. He was nominated to be the second President of Israel, but declined the honor.

Answer 3

Jeremy k, did you read my previous posts? I don't mean to brag or claim anything because my opportunity was over, but I was nearly recognized as a true Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein whom we know him in the textbook today was a stealer. He stole my identity. Niels Bohr who truely died in the early 1990s and I were about to be recognized in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we could have shared the Nobel Prize. I mentioned many times that in San Jose Convention Center in the late 1980s, they put the statues of the hands, if anyone put the hands in the statue, then the bell rang, then that person was recognized as a true Albert Einstein. I made it. No bad comments please, because this was true. I say again maybe if you talk to top professors of Universities or politicians they remember and tell you the story.

Answer 4

Albert Einstein is famous because he changed the way we looked at world. He proved that we were wrong about so many things in physics. He is famous because his predictions are being proven now. He could do them then 100 years ago.

Answer 5

Because of new ideas. Ideas are the source everything else. Einstein change how we viewed the universe, which lead to the list given in the other answers.

Answer 6

Are you kidding? He did so much. The equation E=MC^2 is enough to make any famous because it is so brilliant. He made a ton of theories that still hold true. He is referenced so often that it is ridiculous to think he wouldn't be famous.

Answer 7

ya u r absolutely correct...i read it in a book called Einstein's Magic.