Informative Essay: How Einstein Changed The World

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“If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. X stands for work; Y stands for play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut.” The world tends to think they know who Albert Einstein is but do you really know? We all know the basics about him like how he was one of the greatest scientists of all time, but very few people know what he actually created for the world. So today I will tell you about Einstein whose scientific discoveries changed the world forever. First, I will start off with his childhood and early life. Next, I will tell you about his career and achievements and last but not least, I will tell you about his death and the legacy he left behind in the world of science. According to author Judy Hasday, Albert Einstein was born …show more content…

Even though Newton wasn’t alive at the same time Einstein was, Newton was a great influence on Einstein because he was able to use the theories proposed by Newton to back up his research on the Theory of Relativity and his photoelectric effect. The E-library database proclaimed that Einstein first came up with the equation E equals MC squared in 1905, his miracle year. This equation belongs to the theory of Relativity that he had been working on that year in which he was able to prove that light indeed curves when passing through the sun. That same year he worked on the photoelectric effect and quantum theory. Author Judy Hasday noted that Banesh Hoffman, a physicist and mathematician, believed that Einstein woke up one morning and came up with his theory randomly. The History.com staff expressed that he was proven to be correct in 1919 because that was the year that British scientists went on an exploration and managed to take photos of a solar eclipse, therefore, proclaiming that his theory of relativity was valid. Afterwards, Einstein’s reputation grew rapidly and he travelled the world for many years to explain his theory to the rest of the world. In 1922, he won the Nobel peace prize for his 1905 photoelectric effect that dealt with the quantum theory, in which he was not …show more content…

Albert Einstein died on April 18th, of 1955 in the hospital from claiming to have excessive pain the night prior to his death. The Biography.com editors claimed that the scientist had been working on a speech for Isreal’s seventh anniversity speech when he passed away that morning from abdominal aortic aneurysm, which as stated by the Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia, is a ballooning of the aorta normally caused by smoking and high blood pressure with occurances usually in the age range of sixty. Also stating that 1 out 5 people survive from a ruptured aneurysm which is just about twenty percent of a survival rate. After his death, Brian Burrell tells us that Pathologist, Thomas Harvey, did an autopsy procedure in which the scientist’s brain and eyes were removed without permission until it was forced from one of Einstein’s two sons. This man later moved to Wichita, KS after being fired from Princeton. The eyes still remain a mystery on what happened to them but the brain was later used for research to eliminate their confusion on how Einstein was ever so dexterous. Although Einstein has passed away, he left one thing behind, a legacy too great to forget. The author Judy Hasday mentions that, Einstein, in just fifteen years has been able to change the lifestyle and the way we viewed the earth forever so far being the only person to make such a huge contribution after Isaac Newton. To this day his theories are still used to

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