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LN Aha ea Bee a tate Yn oe un wo s IOUS WNED rer ae) Caan? eerie SOY Urs we ae mae ets . tr OW YW . eo Whe his parents weni fe piles, they: teff the fehind at schmol. # inaged to secure & Certificate stating (hat he vac suffer, exhaustion, and sooceed! ing [rom nervous Wis half yer in Daly war hr: Joining then: pave hee en, atandoned his German citzenchin and resolved vever to return, “Where be did go was t0 Switrertond, where he studied ina technica! echeal in Aarau_and then at the Zurich Téeh- weal Academy. He becarie a Swiss eubject, av it wae in this school that he met a Sertialf feliow-ttudent, a gifted mathemati Milevd Maree, whom he married is Sy whoo; he had two sotts, Albert, Tdward. They were divorced 15 years latet, 1h this same year, 190T, he began teaching. first in she Technical School in) Winterthar, ren asa private tutor, in Schaffhausen, In PPh vent to work as a patrut office ex- viner i Heme This was the petiad hen he firet Sean the research and studies which calinivated fa the formulation Bf the Reta- livity Theory, the first payer being On the Flectrot sanies of Veang, Rodies, published in 1903, He also took his Ph, D. degsee from vie University of rich, fp {907 he appointe! ao professor at the Univ Sarich, He lectured on theoretical 1sincipally on the science of heat His y regular atteufants were two personal friends! At this time he received a position at Rome Vnivertity as lecturer. Alreaty, in [9OR, he had been invited to lecture on refativity and the coustitution of Veght before the congress of scientists, meet- sag in Sateburg it was his firet a rarice rf such ws oficial gathering, and the t reece Te fed iefireculy to his agnition of his work . professor of thysies appointm-nt at ordinary at the Geonan Unis tn Prague (1918-12). He hated to Jeave Switzerland to po what wat then Ansiro-Hunpary, but once there we found Jie position tuck pleasanter than it bad boon ia the lareet amivereity in Zurich, Vien, a year ainda half later, fe was called back to Zurich, this time to the Cunfederate Ustytechnic Acadeny, where he had once been a student, he was teluctant te go. [le hed a ifs andl to stnall boys to support, however, and had no choice, This time his lectures were well attended and enthusiastical'y received. In 1934, already a figure of world promi- hence, an oppertuiity was offered hin that he did not dave refuse, Through the eifor's of Max Planck, the fanrous pliysicis!, a pro- feasnrshit) wat offered hiny by ihe Prussian Academy of Sciences in Herlin, with oo alficial duties, Vitte terching, but unlanited opportunity. for study. A separate Physical Institute was to be ettablished for hin: but Ne declined this, since his work was tv now almost entirely theoretical, He went to Berlin in 1944, retaining his Swiss cifizenship, and remained there until the Nazi- forced Ri to leave, 11 ig impossible to explain briefly to fay el readers just what, the Theory of lativ ity implies, or what jts significance is, Put as simply as postible it regards time as) the fonsth dimension, thus making all physical 5 fu gn tripalsive gesture, be © ALBERT PINATTAN phenosena (trom our galrt of view 4 three dimensional beings), relative, not absolvte, | 1G éxplains mass, gravity, inertia, space and fime, It is mathematical ii origin, though mort of ite proofs and demonstrations come fromm astroh- coms aud. aste: -physice. stein. is devott ig remainder of bir life to a search for A fied feld theory” which will bridge rel dsity and quantum inechanies (ibe matiomatics of the atom and its parts), and thus embrace all plienomens fron the electron to the, uni. verse. Over 4,000 book« and pomphlets and uncountable numbera bi articles if ve beech written cumuenting 60, medifyitg, pposing of upholding the special an} genteal Relativity Theory , Ritterly fought in some scientific citeles, it i# now accepted, & Whole, by nist physiclsts and wathematicians, But elther expositions ot attacks involve a teclinical back- ground wltich Tntits profitable discresion to the world of prefearional science. Einstan received the Nobel rite in physics in 162) and gave all the prize money to charits. He himself dees not kaow how many honorary degrees he hae received of to how many fearn- ed societies he belongs. With chatacteristic modests, he tists arvrng all his various mertals god decorations only i ¢ Copley Nedat of the Royal Society, received in 1925, and the Frank- No Inettute Medal rerei-ed in 1935. He was & research student of Christ Church, Oxford, until 1931, when he was Rhodes Memorial Lecturer and received an honorary D. Se de- ree thete, The same year he waa Rouse all Lecturer at Carnbridge. During his ‘care ie Berlin he traveled frequently to give ectures: abroad and in 193] he spent severa! tionths at the California Institute of Tech nology, He also made at least one long trip around the world. From 1912 to 1928 he was rofessor of physire at the University of atyden, “conunuting™” for thar perpose from Bertin and continuing right through the First