What was Albert Einstein like as a person?

What was Albert Einstein like as a person?

During Albert Einstein’s remarkable year in 1905, when he wrote five groundbreaking papers that would eventually make him famous worldwide, he was married to Mileva. What many people don’t know is that Mileva played a significant role in his work. She collaborated with him, and some of the notes and correspondence related to his theories … Read more

Are there relatives or descendants of Albert Einstein? Are they alive?

Albert Einstein’s descendants are still alive. Albert Einstein had three children: Hans Albert Einstein, Eduard “Tete” Einstein, and Lieserl Einstein. Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard Einstein had children, and the family has continued to grow through subsequent generations. Due to privacy concerns and the changing nature of family structures, detailed information about Albert Einstein’s living … Read more

Is Stephen Hawking the successor to Einstein? Is Hawking as brilliant as Einstein?

Is Stephen Hawking the successor to Einstein? Is Hawking as brilliant as Einstein?

Stephen Hawking is a brilliant man and deserves much credit for his work on black holes, Hawking radiation and the gravitational singularity theorem however I would not place him in the same Physics pedigree as Einstein. Albert Einstein’s Special and General Relativity smashed the notion of absolute space and time and redefined how we understand … Read more

Did Einstein ever meet Hawking?

Albert Einstein died in 1955, having lived in the United States since the 1930s. Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, UK in 1942. He was therefore only 13 years old when Einstein died. I can’t find any record of Einstein being in the UK between 1950 and 1955 (when Hawking would have been between 8 … Read more

Did Hitler ever visit the U.S?

Did Hitler ever visit the U.S?

In addition to the answers already written, I’d like to add that Hitler had a childish and romantic idea of America based on the Western novels by the German writer Karl May. These books were very popular in Germany in the first half of the 20th century and featured the exploits of amongst others, “Old … Read more

Why do people say Albert Einstein was Jewish?

Why do people say Albert Einstein was Jewish?

Because he was born to a Jewish mother, which is the definition Jews use. Her name was Pauline Einstein, née Koch; the Einsteins were Ashkenazi Jews from Ulm. And of course, Einstein himself always considered himself to be Jewish, even though he did not practice the religion. Naturally, the Nazis also considered him Jewish, which … Read more