Index Youth Adulthood Contributions Later Bibliography
Later
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." – Albert Einstein
After the proof of his predictions in regards to the general
theory of relativity in 1919, Einstein was set upon by the press, his personal
ethics exploded into the public imagination.
Being one of only a handful of German professors who did not support
His successes triggered violent responses from anti-Semitic
physicists such as Philipp Lenard
and Johannes Stark, attempted creators of Aryan physics in
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." –Albert Einstein
Because of the massively controversial nature of his theories of relativity, he did not receive his Nobel Prize in 1921 for those studies, but instead for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.
At the late age of 59, when most physicists would have abandoned original scientific research, Einstein achieved major new results in the general theory of relativity along with his co-workers Leopold Infeld and Banesh Hoffman.
Right up until the end of his life, Einstein pursued a unified field theory, so that gravitation and electromagnetism could be derived from one set of equations. While he pursued this however, the rest of the community was moving on to focusing on theories of quantum mechanics, so much of his last work was left unnoticed for quite some time. Even now, scientists are trying to combine Einstein’s relativity work with quantum theory in a massive conglomerated “Theory of Everything”.
“Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." –Albert Einstein
