Edward john wollstonecraft biography of albert einstein
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Life and career
Albert Einstein, a synonym for genius, was a theoretical physicist of German birth who developed the theory of relativity, a cornerstone of modern physics.
Einstein is also known for his contributions to the philosophy of science. Einstein is most well-known to the general public for his formula E=mc^2, which has been referred to as "the world's most famous equation."
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect," which was a crucial step in the development of quantum theory.
Einstein's father was a salesman who later owned an electrochemical factory. Born in the German Empire, Einstein moved to Switzerland in 1895 and renounced his German citizenship in 1896. He received his teaching diploma in physics and mathematics from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich in 1900, and became a Swiss citizen the following year. After initially having difficulty finding work, Einstein was employed as a patent examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern from 1902 to 1909.
Early in his career, Einstein believed that the principles of classical mechanics, as described by Newton, were insufficient to reconcile with the law
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The Women Men Don’t Hear
“The female lead never stands out”, Rosalind Franklin’s character bitterly remarks in Anna Ziegler’s play, Photo 51, right before the curtain drops. With the unlikely topic of the first image of human DNA as its central theme – an image captured by Franklin and illegitimately acquired by Watson and Crick to develop their famous DNA model – the play is a brilliant depiction of the various levels at which sexism in science operates. One such level, of diminishing or erasing women’s contributions, was recently instantiated by a series of newspaper headings referring to Esther Duflo, a co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics, solely as the wife of another recipient, Abhijit Banerjee, sometimes without even mentioning her name (here and here).
The striking omission of Duflo’s name comes in a context of forceful contestation of the erased or diminished contributions of scientists’ wives to their husbands’ successes. Mileva Maric, Einstein’s first wife, is widely reported by acquaintances to have worked alongside Einstein on his papers – work which included editing, mathematical calculations (which Einstein is reported to have claimed were done exclusively by her), and preparing lectures – some appearing in Maric’s handwriti