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Albert Einstein

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  • What random movement did Einstein explain that helped prove the existence of atoms?
    Brownian motion.
  • To which president did Einstein write in 1939 warning about nuclear weapons?
    Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • In what year did Einstein receive the Nobel Prize?
    1921
  • What does the theory of special relativity propose about time and space?
    They are not absolute and depend on the observer.
  • In which city was Albert Einstein born?
    Ulm, Germany
  • What is Einstein’s most famous equation?
    E=mc²
  • At which institute did Einstein study?
    Zurich Polytechnic Institute
  • How does the theory of general relativity reinterpret gravity?
    As the curvature of space and time caused by mass.
  • In what year did Einstein publish the theory of special relativity?
    1905
  • For what work did Einstein receive the Nobel Prize?
    For his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
  • What event in 1919 confirmed the theory of general relativity?
    A solar eclipse
  • At which university did Einstein work during his exile in the United States?
    Princeton University
  • What phenomenon did Einstein explain by showing that light behaves as particles called photons?
    The photoelectric effect.
  • What branch of physics did Einstein help develop, although he later criticized it?
    Quantum physics.
  • In what year was Einstein born?
    1879
  • What project was initiated as a result of Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt?
    The Manhattan Project.