Einstein Speech

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Albert Einstein
I. Introduction:
Q: How smart was he?
A: (Really smart.)
Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20th century.
II. The Early Years:
A) Born in Ulm on March 14, 1879
B) Youth in Munich, family owned small shop manufactured electric machinery.
C) No talk until three, as youth, brilliant curiosity about nature and understand difficult mathematical concepts.
D) 12 he taught himself geometry.
E) He hated the dull spirit of school
F) Business failure family to leave Germany for Milan,
G) Einstein, 15 withdrew from the school
H) Spent year with parents-Milan
I) He had to make his own way, he finished school in Switzerland,
J) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.
K) Einstein did not enjoy it, he cut classes to study physics or play violin.
L) Passed all examinations, graduated in 1900 by studying a classmates notes
M) Professors didn’t like him, didn’t recommend him for university position.
N) Worked as tutor and substitute teacher.
O) 1902 position as examiner in Swiss patent office, Bern.
P) 1903 married Mileva Marić, classmate at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Q) Two sons, eventually divorced, Einstein later remarried
III. Early Scientific Publications:
A) 1905 doctorate from University of Zürich for dimensions of molecules
B) Published three papers contributing to development of 20th-century physics.
C) First, on Brownian motion, made predictions about motion of particles that are randomly distributed in a fluid.
D) Predictions confirmed by experiment.
E) Second, photoelectric effect, hypothesis concerning the nature of light. He proposed that under certain circumstances light can consist of particles, but he also hypothesized ...