Albert+Einstein

Albert Einstein - The Atom Bomb (Anay Patel, Sam Connell)



**__Basic Info__**
Birth Date: March 14, 1879 Birth Place: Wurttemburg, Germany Death Date: April 18, 1955 Death Place: Princeton, New Jersey Invented: Theory of Relativity, Atom Bomb

= Life of Einstein =  Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, at Ulm in Wurttemburg, Germany. He was raised by his parents, Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch Einstein. When he was six weeks old, his family moved to Munich and it was there that he started school. He sister,Maja, was born in 1881. He later moved to Italy and continued school at Aarau, Switzerland, and then in 1896 he went to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to become a teacher of physics and math. In 1901, he got his diploma, got Swiss citizenship, and got a job as a technical assistant at the Swiss Patent Office, and got his doctor's degree in 1905.

While he was in the Patent Office, he published many of his great works. It was from 1908 to 1933 that was the major part of his life. He became a professor at many places, including Zurich (Professor Extraordinary, Professor of Theoretical Physics), and Berlin (Director and Professor of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute). Then, in Berlin in 1933, he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to th e United States to become a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton University. In 1940, he became a United States citizen, and then in 1945, he retired from being a professor. After WWII, he became a leading figure in the World Government Movement. He was offered the Presidency of Israel, but declined, and he helped found the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He won many awards in his life. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

__Additional Facts__ Albert Einstein won many awards and/or medals. They are the following:

1919- University of Rostock, Honorary doctorate 1921- Princeton University, Honorary doctorate 1922- Nobel Foundation, Stockholm Nobel Prize for Physics 1923- University of Madrid, Honorary doctorate 1923- Order "Pour le mérite", Admission to the order 1925- Royal Society of London, Copley Medal 1926- Royal Astronomical Society, Gold Medal 1929- German Physical Society, Max-Planck-Medal 1930- ETH (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule(Federal Institute of Technology)), Zurich, Honorary doctorate 1931- Oxford University, Honorary doctorate 1935- Franklin Institute, Philadelphia Benjamin Franklin Medal 1935- Harvard University, H onorary doctorate

__Significant events in his life__

-His father gave him a compass and Einstein was fascinated by it and wondered how the needle stayed in one direction -A family friend introduced him to books on science and math. This starts him wanting to know facts and information -He made his theory of relativity

__Contribution to society__ He explained things that couldn't or haven't been explained yet. He also made on of the most destructive weapons on Earth.

__Hobbies__ When he wasn't doing anything, he liked to sail on a river or lake. When he was bored, he used to build houses of cards, and was very good at it. He made a house 14 stories high! His mother got him started on music, and at first he didn't like it, but then he heard Mozart, and he loved it.

**Einstein and the Atom Bomb**

Albert Einstein was the developer of the first Atom Bomb. The principle E=mc2 definitely took effect to this development. He was not planning to create this bomb in the first place, but the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler was planning on developing one. Einstein wrote a letter to president Franklin Roosevelt stating that it was time for the development of the Atom Bomb to take place. President Roosevelt approved his letter, which lead to the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was a government secret project that took place before WW2. The point of this project was to develop a nuclear bomb to be used in the war. The Manhattan Project took place in an underground facility in Manhattan, New York.

When the bomb was finally built, it was tested in the New Mexico desert. It was so bright that people in other counties said that they thought the sun rose two times. A blind girl 120 miles away even saw the flash. The flash sent radioactive dust 30,000 feet into the air. Eventually the bombing of Pearl Harbor led to the United States bombing Japan with two different Atom bombs. The first was named "Fat Man" and the second"Little Boy". The two blasts were so powerful that it literally turned Japan to dust. The radiation still has had affects on people living in Japan today. Some children born continue to have birth defects.

The Atom bomb was a crazy invention developed by the smartest man in history, Albert Einstein. Nuclear bombs have continued to become even more powerful. Many countries, including the United States and Russia are destroying their nuclear weapon. Countries have even signed treaties saying that they will not use weapons of mass destruction. The U.S and Russia actually have enough nuclear weapons left from the Cold War that if they were all launched, it would destroy the face of the Earth and all of humanity. If any country were to launch nuclear weapons at another country, that country would automatically launch its nuclear warheads at the other country. Both countries would be destroyed. This just shows that the nuclear bomb is the most destructive thing on Earth.

media type="custom" key="10897240"

media type="custom" key="10897266" __**Citations **__

"Albert Einstein - Biography." //Nobelprize.org//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011 . The author of this information is Noble Lecturers, a sort of company. This information was printed in 1967. The purpose of this website is to give a biography of Albert Einstein. This website did contain a great deal of information, although, it didn't provide links to other sites with additional info. This website was about the life of Albert Einstein. I used this site to give me the main information about Einstein's life. The info that this website help me find was about how Einstein went through his life, and important facts about him.

Reinhardt, Joachim. "Albert Einstein Family Pictures." //Pictures of Famous Physicists//. Web. 17 Oct. 2011. . <span style="color: #fb9704; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The author of this info is Joachim Reinhardt. This website was last updated in 2001. The purpose of this website is to give pictures of famous physicists. This website didn't contain a lot of info, but it helped. It didn't contain additional links to other websites. This website was to tell Einstein's family. I used this site to see who was in Einstein's family. The info that this website helped me find was who was included in his family.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Küpper, Hans-Josef."Albert Einstein - Honours, Prizes and Awards." //Albert Einstein in the World Wide Web//. Web. 15 Oct. 2011. <http://www.einstein-website.de/z_information/honours.html>. <span style="color: #fb9704; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The author of this info is Hans-Josef Küpper. This info was published and last updated in 2000. The purpose of this website is to tell about Albert Einstein. This website did contain not a great deal of info, but a good amount of it. It didn't give additional links to other websites. This website was about the awards that Albert Einstein got. I used this site to see what kind of awards that Einstein got. The info that this website helped me find was what kind of awards he got, and described what the awards were.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Albert Einstein Timeline." //<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">History Timelines //<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">. Web. 15 Oct. 2011. <http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/people-timelines/26-albert-einstein-timeline.htm>. <span style="color: #fb9704; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The author of this website was History Timelines. This info was last updated in 2006. The purpose of this website is to give time lines of important or famous people in history. This website did contain a great deal of information, but it did not include additional links. This website was a timeline of main events in Einstein's life. I used this website to see the major events that were in Einstein's life. The information that this website helped me find was the main or major events that were in Einstein's life, and the cause/effect of them.

<span style="color: #008000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">Rosenburg, Jennifer. "10 Things You Don't Know About Albert Einstein." //20th Century History//. Web. 15 Oct. 2011. <http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Einstein10.htm>. <span style="color: #fb9704; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px;">The author of this website is Jennifer Rosenburg. The info was last updated in 2011. The purpose of this website is to explain almost everything. This website did not have a great deal of info. It did not give additional links to other website, but it did to other articles. This website was the hobbies that Albert Einstein liked to do. I used this website to see what hobbies Einstein had. The info that this website helped me find was the hobbies and interests of Albert Einstein.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #187b18; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWatom.htm <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This website gave a very good amount of information of the atom bomb and its developers. This site was definitely one of our main websites for information of the atom bomb. This site talks about what happened before the atom bomb was created and why this weapon of mass destruction was created. This website talks about Albert Einstein's career and why he thought that the development of the atom bomb was the best solution to Germany's plot to make a nuclear weapon. This website was very helpful because it listed things about not only Albert Einstein and the atom bomb, but also about other researchers and scientists who helped develop the atom bomb.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #187b18; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://inventors.about.com/od/astartinventions/a/atomic_bomb.htm <span style="color: #fb0404; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This website was very helpful in the development of this wiki because this website did not just give information about Albert Einstein, but it told what went into creating an atom bomb. This websites said what was used in the making of the atom bomb, which was mostly Uranium 235. This website also told what went into making highly enriched uranium. It said that this was the most difficult process in the making of the atom bomb. This website also talked about what actually happened during the Manhattan Project and the testing of the first nuclear weapon in the history of the world.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #187b18; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #fb0404; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The author of this article is Ronald Clark. This website gave information about Einstein and the Atom Bomb. This was somewhat like a biography about when he first invented the Atom Bomb. This website was to inform readers about the invention that Einstein created. This website is for researchers to research about the first Atom Bomb. This website contained great information, including the materials he used to make the Atom Bomb. This website gave reasons for Einstein inventing the Atom Bomb.