HOW ALBERT EINSTEIN BECAME A CELEBRITY
14 May 2014 17:53:57 UTC
Topic 197582
(moderation:
From The National Endowment for the Humanities magazine:
Quote:
It took six minutes, fifty-one seconds for Albert Einstein to become world famous. That’s how long the moon stood suspended before the face of the sun on May 29, 1919, eclipsing its light.
-snip-
Success did not come easy to Einstein. He received no job offers upon graduating from college in 1900, and even after his annus mirabilis of 1905—when he published papers that laid the foundations for special relativity and quantum mechanics, and derived E=mc2 to boot—it took four more years to find work as a physicist.
Click here for the full story.
