Albert Einstein Born: 14 March 1879, Ulm, Germany Died: 18 April 1955, Princeton, NJ, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck-Institut) für Physik, Berlin, Germany Prize motivation: for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect Field: theoretical physics Albert Einstein received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1922. It was long reported that, in accord with the divorce settlement,[2] the Nobel Prize money had been deposited in a Swiss bank account for his wife Maric to draw on the interest for herself and their two sons, while she could only use the capital by agreement with Einstein. However, personal correspondence made public in 2006[3] shows that he invested much of it in the United States, and saw much of it wiped out in the Great Depression. However, ultimately he paid Maric more money than he received with the prize.[4] In 1925 the Royal Society awarded Einstein the Copley Medal.[5] In 1929, Max Planck presented Einstein with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society in Berlin, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics.[6] In 1934 Einstein gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture.[7][8] In 1936, Einstein was awarded the Franklin Institutes Franklin Medal for his extensive work on relativity and the photo-electric effect.[6] The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the World Year of Physics in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the annus mirabilis papers.[9] The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a research-intensive medical school located in the Morris Park neighborhood of the Bronx in New York City. The Albert Einstein Science Park is located on the hill Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, Germany. The best known building in the park is the Einstein Tower which has a bronze bust of Einstein at the entrance. The Tower is an astrophysical observatory that was built to perform checks of Einsteins theory of General Relativity.[10] The Albert Einstein Memorial in central Washington, D.C. is a monumental bronze statue depicting Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. The statue, commissioned in 1979, is located in a grove of trees at the southwest corner of the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences on Constitution Avenue. The chemical element 99, einsteinium, was named for him in August 1955, four months after Einsteins death.[11][12] 2001 Einstein is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on 5 March 1973.[13] In 1999 Time magazine named him the Person of the Century,[14][15] ahead of Mahatma Gandhi and Franklin Roosevelt, among others. In the words of a biographer, to the scientifically literate and the public at large, Einstein is synonymous with genius.[16] Also in 1999, an opinion poll of 100 leading physicists ranked Einstein the greatest physicist ever.[17] A Gallup poll recorded him as the fourth most admired person of the 20th century in the U.S.[18] In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple for laudable and distinguished Germans,[19] which is located in Donaustauf in Bavaria.[20] The United States Postal Service honored Einstein with a Prominent Americans series (1965–1978) 8¢ postage stamp. In 2008, Einstein was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.[21] Awards named after Einstein See also: List of things named after Albert Einstein The Albert Einstein Award (sometimes called the Albert Einstein Medal because it is accompanied with a gold medal) is an award in theoretical physics, established to recognize high achievement in the natural sciences. It was endowed by the Lewis and Rosa Strauss Memorial Fund in honor of Albert Einsteins 70th birthday. It was first awarded in 1951 and included a prize money of $15,000,[22][23] which was later reduced to $5,000.[24][25] The winner is selected by a committee (the first of which consisted of Einstein, Oppenheimer, von Neumann and Weyl[26]) of the Institute for Advanced Study, which administers the award.[23] The Albert Einstein Medal is an award presented by the Albert Einstein Society in Bern, Switzerland. First given in 1979, the award is presented to people who have rendered outstanding services in connection with Einstein.[27] The Albert Einstein Peace Prize is given yearly by the Chicago, Illinois-based Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation. Winners of the prize receive $50,000.[28] References Albert Einstein – Frequently Asked Questions, Nobelprize.org, 18 April 1955, retrieved 7 January 2009 Einstein Collected Papers, Vol. 8, doc. 562 BBC (11 July 2006), Letters Reveal Einstein Love Life, BBC News (BBC), retrieved 25 November 2008 MSNBC Report 10 July 2006 Whittaker, E. (1955). Albert Einstein. 1879-1955. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1: 37–67. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0005. JSTOR 769242. Marco Mamone Capria (2005) Physics before and after Einstein p.5. IOS Press, 2005 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectures An elementary proof of the theorem concerning the equivalence of mass and energy. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 41 (4): 223–230. 1935. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1935-06046-x. MR 1563062. 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Mother Teresa Voted by American People as Most Admired Person of the Century, 31 December 1999, retrieved 13 August 2008 Walhalla, official guide booklet. p. 3. Translated by Helen Stellner and David Hiley, Bernhard Bosse Verlag Regensburg, 2002 Walhalla Ruhmes- und Ehrenhalle (in German), retrieved 3 October 2007 The Newark Star Ledger. Biography of J. Schwinger from University of St Andrews, MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive (Last accessed 17 December 2006). The Month at Caltech, April 1954 issue, p. 20 (Last accessed on 4 September 2007). 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(1949) Russell–Einstein Manifesto (1955) Family Pauline Koch (mother) Hermann Einstein (father) Maja Einstein (sister) Mileva Marić (first wife) Elsa Einstein (second wife) Lieserl Einstein (daughter) Hans Albert Einstein (son) Eduard Einstein (son) Bernhard Caesar Einstein (grandson) Evelyn Einstein (granddaughter) Einstein Prizes Albert Einstein Award Albert Einstein Medal Albert Einstein Peace Prize Albert Einstein World Award of Science Einstein Prize (APS) Einstein Prize for Laser Science Other Political views Religious views Albert Einstein House Einstein refrigerator Brain In popular culture Awards and honors List of things named after Albert Einstein Einstein Papers Project
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