Einstein & United States Of America

¿Who is Einstein and why he is so important to UEA?

Albert Einstein ;14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who
discovered the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement,
Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics.] He 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”

He escaped from Nazi Germany in 1933, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of
Sciences, and settled in the U.S., becoming a citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he helped
alert President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon, and
recommended that the U.S. begin similar research. He taught physics at the Institute for Advanced
Study at Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

¿How he lived in America?

He went to US in 1933 when he was escaping from the Nazi Germany but besides that he had
visited the country 2 times before.

He arrived the 13th of October of 1933 with his wife Elsa .When he arrived he didn’t had to look so
hard for a job because the university of Princeton offered him a place as a teacher which he
accepted immediately. He was very happy with his new life there , his job was close his home so
he walked everyday and sometimes he walked along his wife ,he also retook his passion for violin.

He got the US citizenship in 1940

Project Manhattan

In 1939 a group of scientists including him analyzed the probability of Germany building nuclear
bombs , the probability was high so they decided to send a letter to Roosevelt explaining how
dangerous it was and what he should do. So the U.S government began a big research based on
Einstein letter and his famous equation E=MC2

When he realized what the government was doing he tried to stopped it ,but he couldn’t and he
had that guilt which he expressed many times in phrases like:

“I should burn the fingers that wrote that letter”

His last years in America

After the detonation of the nuclear bomb he began a political an pacifist career in the US with
various associations like the NATO. He continued to teach in Princeton .And lastly he tried to make
a theory to make relation between two important scientific enigmas.
He died victim of an aneurysm .He refused surgery caused he thought he needed to go with
“class”.

His most famous photo

Although a lot of people think this photo was such a silly face of such a brilliant person. It isn’t
more than an accident due to harassment of a lot of photographers during a ceremony for his
birthday so that only thing he could do was stick his tongue out.

Conclusions

Einstein was one of the greatest men that lived during the XX century he contributed so much to
human kind and was one of the factors that changed world history not only in science but also to
culture for example with his famous photo that is a really simple gesture but for some the man
that was making the gesture gave it a deeper meaning like Ernesto “Che” Guevara or Marilyn
Monroe.