March 14 is also known as Pi Day for its tie to the first digits of Pi, 3. Such elaborate celebrations are ironic because Einstein was known for eschewing birthday parties. One birthday party he did like, however, was for his 70th — thanks to some very special visitors. Even four years after World War II ended, many who had been made homeless by the war had yet to be settled.
One of the children brought to the U. Astronomer Edwin Hubble deduced that we indeed inhabit an expanding universe, with the two scientists meeting at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles in By November , Einstein completed the general theory of relativity. Einstein considered this theory the culmination of his life research. Einstein's assertions were affirmed via observations and measurements by British astronomers Sir Frank Dyson and Sir Arthur Eddington during the solar eclipse, and thus a global science icon was born.
This equation suggested that tiny particles of matter could be converted into huge amounts of energy, a discovery that heralded atomic power. Famed quantum theorist Max Planck backed up the assertions of Einstein, who thus became a star of the lecture circuit and academia, taking on various positions before becoming director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics today is known as the Max Planck Institute for Physics from to In , readers were allowed a glimpse into some of the unfiltered private thoughts of Einstein as a young man with the publication of The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine, and Spain, The young scientist started a sea journey to Japan in Marseilles, France, in autumn of , accompanied by his second wife Elsa.
The couple returned to Germany via Palestine and Spain in March The Travel Diaries contained unflattering analyses of the people he came across, including the Chinese and Sri Lankans, a surprise coming from a man known for vehemently denouncing racism in his later years.
In an entry for November , Einstein refers to residents of Hong Kong as "industrious, filthy, lethargic people Even the children are spiritless and look lethargic.
It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. At the time the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler , were gaining prominence with violent propaganda and vitriol in an impoverished post- World War I Germany.
The Nazi Party influenced other scientists to label Einstein's work "Jewish physics. Meanwhile, other European scientists also left regions threatened by Germany and immigrated to the U. After moving, Einstein never went back to his native land. It was at Princeton that Einstein would spend the rest of his life working on a unified field theory—an all-embracing paradigm meant to unify the varied laws of physics.
Not long after he began his career at Princeton, Einstein expressed an appreciation for American "meritocracy" and the opportunities people had for free thought, a stark contrast to his own experiences coming of age. In , Einstein was granted permanent residency in his adopted country and became an American citizen five years later. During World War II , he worked on Navy-based weapons systems and made big monetary donations to the military by auctioning off manuscripts worth millions.
Roosevelt to alert him of the possibility of a Nazi bomb and to galvanize the United States to create its own nuclear weapons. The U. Einstein was also the recipient of much scrutiny and major distrust from FBI director J.
Einstein reportedly loved music and had said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably have been a musician. The scientist was also deeply impressed by Mahatma Gandhi and the two exchanged written letters over the course of their lives. On April 17, , Einstein experience internal bleeding due to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and died early next morning at the age of One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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