Einstein's Quotes

“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c². The fact that the energy withdrawn from the body becomes energy of radiation evidently makes no difference, so that we are led to the more general conclusion that The mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content; if the energy changes by L, the mass changes in the same sense by L/9 × 1020, the energy being measured in ergs, and the mass in grammes.”

-Ist die Trägheit eines Körpers von seinem Energieinhalt abhängig? (Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?)http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/e_mc2.pdf

“Some recent work by E.Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future… This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable - though much less certain - that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed.”

-Albert Einstein's Letter to FDR

http://hypertextbook.com/eworld/einstein.shtml#second

Albert Einstein Biography

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. His parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein. His family went to Munich after his birth. They remained there until Albert was 15 and in 1894, they moved from Munich to Italy. Albert continued going to school in Switzerland, and after he graduated, he entered the Institute of Technology in Zurich. During his time at school he fell in love with Mileva Maric. She was a young girl from Serbia and the single woman in Einstein’s physics class. They had one daughter, and after that they got married in 1903. They later had two more children, both boys. Einstein and Maric divorced in 1919, and later that year Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal. While he was in college at Zurich He studied math and physics and hoped to become a teacher, but after he graduated in 1901, he could not find a job as a teacher. Therefore, he took a job in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. He accomplished many things in the following years; he became associate professor at Zurich, he also became Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, he was named Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and became a Professor at the University of Berlin. In 1933 he renounced his German citizenship and moved to America to become the Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton. He worked as a professor until he retired in 1945. Albert Einstein died on April 17, 1955 due to internal bleeding. He was 76 Years old. In the course of his life he received many awards and honors. Most notably he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 and Time ranked him as the person of the century.