Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted Bose-Einstein condensation.
Einstein is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”
Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. wiki
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Disappointing. No body needs to know so much in detail about his personal life. Yep, man meets woman, has sex, leaves next morning. We know that.
What the biography needed to talk about was what happened during WWII in Germany, how he managed to move to USA, what would have gone through his mind and any explanations possible about his achievements by real physicists. An insight to how we are benefiting from his discoveries.
This movie is directed like its a biography of Ron Jeremy. Not worth watching fully, not recommending to others.
How do you make a biography about Albert Einstein and have it be anything we didn’t already know about him? We all know he left Germany, being too smart to be a Jew and in Germany at the beginning of the Nazi regime.
He left Germany in 1932 after the Nazi’s raided his house and seized his bank accounts. It was a week or so before Hitler took full control of Germany. After that, he traveled Europe giving physics lectures. Before the Nazi’s, he was regarded as one of the leading minds in physics. He moved to the United States because he was invited to America by Abraham Flexner. Flexner funded a think tank at Princeton known as the institute for the Institute of Advanced Study. It was probably the first time scientists got a grant to do pure research without teaching responsibilities. This is vaguely glossed over by the biography here.
Ten years passed before WWII happened, in which Einstein preoccupied himself with the study of physics and women. In 1939, Einstein signed a letter asking Roosevelt to build an A-bomb. Before this, no one, including Einstein, understood the concept of a chain reaction in nuclear reaction. Some American scientists had become privy to some of the details of some German work exploiting the possibility of fission creating a chain reaction. Einstein was one of the few people learned enough to understand the danger that this could be used to create fantastic bombs.
I’ll agree this watches like a National Enquirer expose’ more that a serious biography. I think it’s because there wasn’t really too much personally interesting about Einstein except that he liked women. He was a pacifist, but not an activist. He was an atheist, but without much conviction. In a lot of ways he lived to regret E=Mc2. Except for the letter to Roosevelt, he had nothing to do with WWII.
This biography paints Albert as kind of irresponsible…… Umm…. it’s because Albert was kind of sleazy.
I think it’s interesting to notice perhaps the greatest mind in physics of the last century was this flaky college professor guy who didn’t believe in haircuts.
If you are horrified by Einstein being an “tom cat”. So was his mom