Albert Einstien
Born in 1879, Albert Einstien is known today for his incredible mathematical ability and… well, his wild hair. But more important than the physical attributes of his cranium, is the fantastic information which it provided. He will probably always be remembered as the greatest mathematical genius of the modern world. Honors he has received for his works include the Nobel Prize, which he was awarded in 1921, the Royal Society Copley Medal,which he was awarded in 1925, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921, and he became an AMS Gibbs Lecturer in 1934. He also was a very vocal advocate against nuclear weapons, and spoke out for international peace. Fittingly, a letter asking that his name be put on a manifesto urging all nations to give up their nuclear weapons, was the last he wrote before his death in 1955.
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Einstein's many contributions include his special theory of relativity, which reconciled mechanics with electromagnetism, and his general theory of relativity which extended Galileo's principle of relativity to include gravitation. Other contributions include relativistic cosmology, capillary action, critical opalescence, and the reconciliation of quantum theory to classical problems of statistical mechanics. He explained the Brownian movement of molecules, atomic transition probabilities, the probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory, the quantum theory of a monatomic gas, and the thermal properties of light with low radiation density (which laid the foundation for the photon theory of light). Albert Einstien introduced the theory of radiation that allows stimulated emission, and he proposed the geometrization of physics. Einstein's greatest ambition was to develop a unified field theory.