Albert Einstein is known as the father of modern physics, but his impact on the world reached beyond science alone. With his crazy hair he was a lovable man who never stopped learning.Throughout his life, Albert Einstein was active in the pursuit of freedom and equality. Although he was German born, he was a huge supporter of the Alies durring WWII, and later on he joined W. E. B. Du Bois in the pursuit of Civil Rights.
Einstein was visiting the United States at the time of Hitlers rise to power. In the long run this was not only good for the Alies, but also for Einstein himself, his family were non-observant Jews. Because of what he and other refugee scientists knew of German scientific research they were able to warn President Roosevelt about nuclear weapons. Because of this the Manhattan Project was started.
Eventually Einstein did become a US citizen in 1940 while he was a professor at Prinston. Where he lived and worked until his death at the age of 76. He was still pushing the bounds of science and conducting research up until his death. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer spoke at Einstein's memorial, describing him in these words, "He was almost wholly without sophistication and wholly without worldliness . . . There was always with him a wonderful purity at once childlike and profoundly stubborn."
He is best known for his formula E=MC2 and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."
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