How Did Albert Einstein Who Helped To Develop The Atomic Bomb

Alwalid Aljohani

Professor Morellato

ENGL 080

April 16th, 2015

Albert Einstein goes boom! Who helped to develop the atomic bomb?

Albert Einstein has been gone for sixty years ago, but his legacy still alive. He was born in Germany but he had three different nationality through his life. Albert Einstein is one of the most important scientists in this world. Have you ever thought about what he did to have this legacy? His life was not too easy, and he had some difficulties. Albert was be able to get over them. Were his parents scientists as well? How did he get the knowledge from? Albert Einstein’s life and achievements teach us how to use science in real life.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Wurttemberg, Germany and he grew up

But first, in 1905 he published the special relativity. According to Perkowitz “the Special relativity is limited to objects that are moving at constant speed in a straight line, which is called inertial motion .Beginning with the behavior of light, the theory of special relativity draws conclusions that are contrary to everyday experience but fully confirmed by experiments. Special relativity revealed that the speed of light is a limit that can be approached but not reached by any material object; it is the origin of the most famous equation in science, E = mc2 the energy in matter is equal to its mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. This equation explains how starts can emit large amounts of light while losing very little mass.” (Perkowitz) One of the examples of the special relativity is scientists were be able to use that equation to devolved the atomic bomb. He admitted that he made a mistake. According to Einstein "I made one great mistake in my life when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification the danger that the Germans would make them." (Shmoop Editorial