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Albert Einstein
- Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein once spent his days examining patents for gravel sorters.
- Einstein–de Sitter universeEinstein and Willem de Sitter built a simple expanding universe in 1932. It had no curvature and only matter.
- Einstein's static universeAlbert Einstein added a term of his own invention to keep the universe standing still.
- EinsteiniumEinsteinium, element 99, was first found in the cloud from a hydrogen bomb test. The Ivy Mike blast came in 1952.
- Albert Einstein HouseAlbert Einstein's Princeton home has no historical marker. He reportedly asked that it never become a museum.
- Einstein familyAlbert Einstein had a daughter whose existence stayed unknown to biographers until 1986.
- Einstein–Szilard letterAlbert Einstein signed a 1939 letter to Roosevelt that he had not written. Leo Szilard wrote it, fearing a German bomb.
- Einstein's thought experimentsAt sixteen, Einstein wondered what a beam of light would look like if he traveled alongside it.
- Olympia AcademyEinstein's tutoring ad drew a student, but no lessons ever happened. Instead they began the Olympia Academy.
- Einstein–de Haas effectIn a letter to his friend Michele Besso, Albert Einstein admitted that in his old age he was developing a passion for experimentation. The Einstein-de Haas effect is one result of that passion. Suspend a ferromagnetic cylinder from a thin…
- Special relativitySpecial relativity says moving clocks run slower. Einstein published the theory in 1905 using two assumptions.
- Theory of relativityThe name "theory of relativity" was not coined by Einstein. Alfred Bucherer first used the phrase in 1906.
- Cosmological constantEinstein called the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder", then supernova data suggested he was right.
- Bose–Einstein statisticsEinstein translated Satyendra Nath Bose's rejected paper into German, and it appeared in 1924.
- Einstein field equationsEinstein called adding a cosmological constant to his equations the biggest blunder of his life.
- Brownian motionWhat pushes a grain of pollen around in still water? Einstein's 1905 answer was water molecules.
- Albert Einstein College of MedicineAlbert Einstein first suggested naming his medical school for Maimonides. He agreed to lend his name in 1953.
- Einstein refrigeratorEinstein and Leó Szilárd designed a refrigerator with no moving parts after reading of a deadly leak.
- Mach's principleWhy do your arms fly outward when you spin? Mach's principle says the distant stars may be the reason.
- Bose–Einstein condensateIn June 1995, two physicists made the first gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate from rubidium atoms.
- Photoelectric effectA dim beam of high-frequency light freed electrons, but a bright low-frequency beam freed none.
- Mass–energy equivalenceEinstein never wrote E equals mc squared in his 1905 paper. He wrote that a body giving off radiation loses mass.
- Albert Einstein MemorialStand at the center of the Albert Einstein Memorial in Washington, D.C., and your spoken words bounce back amplified.
- Annus mirabilisIsaac Newton's plague exile at age 23 became his year of miracles.
- World Year of Physics 2005Sixteen giant red E's lined a Berlin boulevard in 2005. The Einstein Mile turned a street into an exhibition.