Albert Einstein?

Question

was Einstein a REAL genius?

what did he do in his lifetime that made him so famous? what did he accomplish?

Answer 1

He was a real genius. His contributions to physics were huge: The Special and General Theories of Relativity and the Unified Field Theory are among his greatest accomplishments.

Answer 2

Albert Einstein

Born: March 14, 1879(1879-03-14)
Ulm, Württemberg, Germany

Died: April 18, 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Field:

Physics

Known for:

General relativity
Special relativity
Brownian motion
Photoelectric effect
Mass-energy equivalence
Einstein field equations
Unified Field Theory
Bose–Einstein statistics
EPR paradox

A poll of prominent physicists named him the greatest physicist of all time. In popular culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius.

Answer 3

[1] He was smart but not a genius. What made him famous was 'his' Relativity theory . A magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king..., its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.

The relativity theory, by the way, is much older than its present proponents. It was advanced over 200 years ago by my illustrious countryman Ruđer Bošković, the great philosopher, who, not withstanding other and multifold obligations, wrote a thousand volumes of excellent literature on a vast variety of subjects. Bošković dealt with relativity, including the so-called time-space continuum.

[2] He had a hand in developing Nuclear weapons.

Answer 4

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist.

He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2. Einstein received 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.

Works by Albert Einstein include more than fifty scientific papers and also non-scientific books. In 1999 Einstein was named Time magazine's "Person of the Century", and a poll of prominent physicists named him the greatest physicist of all time. In popular culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with genius

Answer 5

General Relativity, Special Relativity, Brownian Motion and the Photoelectric Effect to name a few....

How about going here to learn more?

wikipedia.org

Answer 6

He found out that out that E=mc squared,
otherwise,pretty much found out how to split atoms and use nuclear technolagy. It's kind of confusing.

Answer 7

Not really. He helped invent a weapon of mass destruction...