well nuclear bombs he made and e=mc2 and the theory of relativity.
2007-12-19 09:01:25
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answered by Anonymous
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Albert Einstein wasn't famous in math (well, mostly; I'll get to that in a minute). He was a physicist.
When he was 26 years old, Einstein published four influential papers in scientific journals. In the first, he proposed that light interacts with matter in the form of "packets;" it explained how light could behave both as a particle and as a wave. In the second, he supported the atomic theory by writing about the movement of very small particles. In the third, he introduced the theory of special relativity, which meant that the speed of light was a constant, independent of the observer. In the fourth, he wrote about the equivalence of matter and energy; this was an extrapolation of the third paper. The ideas of this paper came to be expressed in the equation E(energy) = mass x the speed of light squared.
These papers didn't attract a lot of attention at the time and many scientists rejected the ideas.
Einstein continued to write and publish; he accepted professorships at numerous schools in Europe and was becoming more widely known. His work on gravitational fields affecting light from stars was tested and confirmed in 1919 by a British team. The newspapers picked up the story, mostly as a shift from Newtonian physics; Einstein became a media darling overnight as other scientists said this was one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever.
In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in theoretical physics and on properties of light. The prize money was given to his wife, as per their divorce settlement.
(There is some question about whether his first wife, Mileva Maric, influenced his work; most historians believe that she didn't.)
2007-12-19 17:20:47
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answered by marvymom 5
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He didn't became famous in math. He was a 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."
"Albert Einstein" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein
2007-12-19 17:07:33
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answered by Erik Van Thienen 7
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well he was smart and he came up with E = mc^2
which pretty much solved every problem know to man then. but the truth is his wife came up with it, but back then women were not considered of power or influence, so to avoid problems Einstein took credit for her discovery.
2007-12-19 17:01:39
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answered by Chris K 2
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E=mc squared. The nuclear bomb too.
2007-12-19 16:59:57
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answered by Anonymous
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i believe because he found e=mc2
2007-12-19 17:01:21
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answered by burmie48 2
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yeah what he said
2007-12-19 17:00:04
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answered by Chris 1
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because he was very good at it
2007-12-19 17:05:17
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answered by Anonymous
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cous he was good at it :P
2007-12-19 16:59:36
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answered by Anonymous
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