'''Albert Einstein''' (1879-1955) was a theoretical physicist who contributed to the theory of a [[Special Relativity]] and the theory of [[General Relativity]]. He also contributed to the study of Photoelectric Effect, Brownian Motion and Bose-Einstein Statistics. He was critical of quantum mechanics and has proposed the EPR-Paradox in attempt to point out spooky aspects of the theory. The last fifteen years of his life were spent in spent unsuccessfully searching for a [[Unified Field Theory]]. Born in Germany in a Jewish familiy, he won the [[Nobel Prize]] for his work on the Photoelectric Effect in 1921.<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/</ref> He immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s where, upon the urging of a colleague in physics, recommended that President Franklin D. Roosevelt develop an [[atomic bomb]] project.<ref>[http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html]</ref>He later regretted this and became a passionate pacifist. In 1952, he was offered the Presidency of Israel, but he turned it down. | '''Albert Einstein''' (1879-1955) was a theoretical physicist who contributed to the theory of a [[Special Relativity]] and the theory of [[General Relativity]]. He also contributed to the study of Photoelectric Effect, Brownian Motion and Bose-Einstein Statistics. He was critical of quantum mechanics and has proposed the EPR-Paradox in attempt to point out spooky aspects of the theory. The last fifteen years of his life were spent in spent unsuccessfully searching for a [[Unified Field Theory]]. Born in Germany in a Jewish familiy, he won the [[Nobel Prize]] for his work on the Photoelectric Effect in 1921.<ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/</ref> He immigrated to the United States in the late 1930s where, upon the urging of a colleague in physics, recommended that President Franklin D. Roosevelt develop an [[atomic bomb]] project.<ref>[http://www.dannen.com/ae-fdr.html]</ref>He later regretted this and became a passionate pacifist. In 1952, he was offered the Presidency of Israel, but he turned it down. |