Einstein was influenced by a number of people in his lifetime who encouraged him to publish his ideas. An example is Max Planck, who is the man that is most likely remembered for founding the Quantum Theory. This theory is the study of the relationshiop between energy quanta(radiation) and matter, in a particular that between valence shell electrons and photons. He was a German Physicist who was a great influence on Albert Einstein and also presented Einstein with the Planck metal in 1922.
Some other people that influenced Einstein were Robert Thornton who wrote a PhD on “Measurements, concept formations,and principles of simplicity”, and Moritz Schlick who wrote many publications that Einstein studied.
Life for Einstein before he published his theories seemed to be that of a normal man. He worked at a patent office which many agree was a waste of his own talent. It didn’t connect with his true calling of physics, but Einstein did it just as a temporary job. On January 6, 1903, Einstein got married to Mileva Maric. They were more of a duel partnership than a couple. Things in this ordinary life would soon change though, when he started to publish his theories and his ideas.
In 1905, while he was working in the patent office, Einstein had four different papers published in the popular Annalen Der Physik. After these publications, Einsteins life would change forever. His most famous paper on the equivalence of matter and energy, which before was considered to be two different and distinct concepts, made his equation of special relativity which later became the most famous expression in all of science: E = mc2.
This small equation suggested that tiny amounts of mass could be converted into huge amounts of energy. In the equation, E stands for energy, M stands for mass, and C stands for the speed of light. The speed of light is a huge number equal to 3.0x 100,000,000 meters/ second. As a result, a tiny change in mass results in an enormous release of energy. At 26 years old, Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich. Also much later, in 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.
On April 17th, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding. He took a draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it. He died at age 76. He left a legacy that would and will still be kept for years to come. An example would be when the United States National Academy of Sciences commissioned the Albert Einstein Memorial, a bronze marble sculpture dedicated to him in 1979 in Washington, D.C. Also, in 1999, Einstein was named “Person of the Century” by Time magazine. He had so many great accomplishments that were beneficial to our modern world.
For a man of his time, Einstein was of course one of the most supreme intellects of all time. His idea’s helped to shape a new way of thinking that influences our society to this day. He will always be remembered for his unbelievable discoveries and publicized works and will live on like any other legacy. He is without a doubt one of the most predominant, creative, and leading physicist in all time. He is until the end of time a brilliant mastermind.
