Albert Einsten
It
was on the sixth of august, 1945 when the newly developed atomic bomb was
dropped in Hiroshima. On august ninth, the second bomn was dropped on Nagasaki.
It caused a great destruction and much loss of life. It made japan surrender on
the fifteenth of august, 1945. That was the end of the second of world war. Since
then the atomic bomb was popular throughout the world .
On
the second of august, 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to president
franklin d.roosevelt, the president of u .s.a at that time. He explained the
possibility of building atomic bomb. He urged the president to provide governmental
help for the study of the release of nuclear energy. Because of Einstein’s
letter, the united state of America produced an atomic bomb in 1945.
Albert
Einstein was an international figure at that time. He was a genius and one of
the greatest scientists of all time. His famous equation, e me2 ( energy equals
ass times the velocity of light squared ), became the foundation stone in the
development of atomic energy. He set forth some theories dealt with everything
from the inside of an atom to the farthest regions of the universe. These theories
showed that gravity. Energy, matter, light, space and time are related. He tried
to explain as much as possible with only a few basic laws.
Albert
Einstein was born on march fourteenth, 1879 at ulm, germany. He was the son of
herman and pailina Koch Einstein .
When
he was five years old, his father gave him a pocket compass with a magnetic
needle. This made him curious about the unseen forces that could keep a compass
needle always pointing north. He read science books when he was ten years old. He
had already started wondering about the mysteries of the universe.
Einsten
entered the polytechnic institute in zurich. Switzerland . in 1905 he published
some of his theories. One of those was the theory of relativity. Year after
year he was known as a great scientist.
In
1921 he came to the united state and later lived there. He traveled all over
the world to explain his theories to other scientists. He was awarded the nobel
prize for physics in 1921.
We
agree that albet Einstein was a “pure” scientist who sought knowledge for tha
sake of the truth. He first thought that the atomic bomb might be needed to
protect civilization against the nazy hermany. The united state used atomic
bomb to conquer japan. But as spn as the second world war ended, he urged that
atomic energy be put to peaceful uses.
Einstein
dies on the eighteenth of april. 1995. Directly or indirectly he had influenced
the development of science.
(taken
from genius magazine aug. 1991)