Albert Einstein was born on March fourteenth, eighteen-seventy-nine, in Ulm, Germany. He died April eighteenth, nineteen-fifty-five, in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein was a German born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. He accomplished many things and created many theories because of his outstanding math skills and thinking. Albert was considered to be the most influential physicist of the twentieth century. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in nineteen-twenty-one for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. The photoelectric effect is the result of light energy being carried in separate quantized packets. In addition, he used the phenomenon explaining that electromagnetic radiation knocks out electrons causing a current to flow in metals to show that light was quantized and came in energy packets called photons. This discovery led to the quantum theory. The equation for the equivalence of mass and energy is expressed as E = mc², where E equals energy, m equals mass, and c equals the speed of light. This means that energy can be transformed into mass and mass can be transformed into energy. Although Einstein had made many new discoveries, in November of nineteen-fifteen he finally completed his general theory of relativity, …show more content…
This theory explains that objects behave at very high velocities. The mass of an object contributes to its energy, and the energy can be converted to other forms if the mass changes. In relativity, the mass is not permanently fixed. In the physical world, velocity can never exceed that of light. All velocities are relative, so no relative velocity can ever exceed the speed of light. Einstein had two postulates that came with the Theory of Relativity. Postulate one was all inertial frames are equivalent with the respect to all laws of physics. The second postulate stated that the speed of light in empty space always has the same value,