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Unit 3 My friend, Albert Einstein. Background Information. Content. 1. 2. 3. 4. Albert Einstein. Banesh Hoffmann. ETH Zurich. The Nazis. Part 1. Albert Einstein. Introduction. Graduated from Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland in 1900.

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  1. Unit 3 My friend, Albert Einstein Background Information

  2. Content 1 2 3 4 Albert Einstein Banesh Hoffmann ETH Zurich The Nazis

  3. Part 1 Albert Einstein Introduction

  4. Graduated from Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland in 1900 Albert Einstein(1879-1955) Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 Property confiscated by Nazi gov. and deprived German citizenship in 1934 Wrote to FDR in 1939 to stress the urgency of investigating the use of atomic energy in bombs

  5. Achievements Special Relativity Photoelectric effect Einstein field equation E=mc² General Relativity Brownian motion

  6. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Truth is what stands the test of experience. Einstein’s Famous Sayings Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of Character.

  7. Person of the Century------Time • The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic, but technological----technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science…Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein. ------Stephen Hawking

  8. Genius (Season 1): Einstein

  9. Banesh Hoffmann Part 2 Introduction

  10. British mathematician who collaborated with Einstein and the Polish physicist Leopold Infeldon the classic paper “Gravitational Equation and the Problem of Motion” In collaboration with Helen Dukas, Einstein’s personal secretary, Hoffmann wrote two highly praised works: Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1973) Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1979) BaneshHoffmann (1906-1986)

  11. Part 3 ETH Zurich Introduction

  12. ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich; German: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, serve as a national center of excellence in science and technology and provide a hub for interaction between the scientific community and industry a science, technology, engineering and mathematics university in the city of Zürich, Switzerland 01 03 32 Nobel Prizes winners, 4 Fields Medalists, and 1 Turing Award Winners, including Albert Einstein founded by the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 02 04

  13. Part 4 The Nazis Introduction

  14. Nazism is a political doctrine of racial supremacy, nationalism, and dictatorship. Nazi is an abbreviation of German word for National Socialist Partyfounded by Hitler. He defined the Germanic people as a race, called Aryans superior to other races. He blamed Germany’s troubles on Jewish capitalism, Communism, and the heavy reparation payments Germany was required to make to the victorious Allies by the Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) that ended the First World War.

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