Business Quote 7/25/2012

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."

 Albert Einstein

 

Albert Einstein was a genius theoretical physicist. He is best known for his mass-energy equivalence, theory of relativity, Brownian motion and photoelectric effect. He was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. Here are some interesting facts about Albert Einstein.

• Basic Albert Einstein Facts

  Birth: March 14, 1879
  Birth Place: Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg in Germany
  Religion/Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
  Field: Physics
  Schooling and College years: Attended the Catholic Elementary School in Munich, in his teens he attended the Luitpold Gymnasium. Graduated from the Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland in 1900 with a diploma in physics and mathematics.
  Key Achievements: Special relativity, General relativity, Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, Bose-Einstein Statistics.
  Notable Honors: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1921, The Copley medal in 1925 for his contributions to quantum theory and for his theory of relativity, the Max Planck medal in 1929 for his achievements in Physics.
  Death: 18 April, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey