scientist of the century
...he Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. This school was perfect for Einstein because it had world-renowned scientists and mathematicians as professors. It was here that he spent his happiest and most rewarding year of his life. Most of the time he will sty in the lab and do his experiment. Four years later when the final exam has arrived, he studied irately and said that he hated the tests and that the tests put off his scientific attempt. Later he found a job at the patent office in Bern as a technical expert. During his spare time in the Bern patent office, he completed an amazing range of theoretical physics publication. In the beginning, Einstein disagreed with Newtonian physics. He points out that Newton had used the bible as evidence to support his knowledge. Einstein believed that there were two kinds of Gods. One was a personal God that we say prayers to and another was to keep everything in balance and organized. He believed in the great organizing force but not in the personal god. He believe physics means to find out the secrets and ways of the old ones. Einstein had written three papers in 1905 after he earned his doctorate from University of Zurich. One of the papers he wrote was published in the German research journal Annalen der physik (Annals of Physics). It was one of his greatest discoveries up to that point in his life and it called the Special Theory of Relativity. He based his new theory on reinstating of the classical principle of relativity, that is the laws of physics had to have the same form in any frame of reference. As a second primary hypothesis, Einstein assumed that the speed of light remained constant in all frames of reference, as required by Maxwell・s theory. After the paper published, most scientists・ reaction ranged at first from confusion to rejection. The reason why they opposed it was not because of technical problems but for other reasons. Others saw in relativity theory a reactionary throwback to the mechanical worldview, which many believed would be outdated at the forefront of research by the electromagnetic view. Very few people who gave Einstein the early support on his theory and one of them was Max Planck. He was the co-editor of the Annalen der Physik and he was one of the first physicists who gave lecture on Einstein・s theory before Einstein became well known. Few years after the Special Theory of Relativity was published, Einstein was recognized as a leading scientist. In 1911, he was appointed to become a full-time professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911. At the same year, Einstein was able to make first round predictions about how a ray of light from a distant star passing near the sun would appear to bend slightly in the direction of the sun. This would be very important, as it would lead to the first experimental evidence in favor of Einstein・s theory. In 1912, Einstein began a new stage of his gravitational research, with the help of his friends Marcel Grossmann, Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. T...