Friday, 25 February 2011

Weird Facts About Albert Einstein:-

1. Einstein Was a Fat Baby with Large Head.
2. Einstein Had Speech Difficulty as a Child.
         As he was a late talker, his parents were worried. At the supper table one night, he broke his silence to say, "The soup is too hot."
Greatly relieved, his parents asked why he had never said a word before.
Albert replied, "Because up to now everything was in order." .

3. Einstein was Inspired by a Compass
        When Einstein was five years old and sick in bed, his father showed him something that sparked his interest in science: a compass.

4. Einstein Failed his University Entrance Exam
         In 1895, at the age of 17, Albert Einstein applied for early admission into the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule or ETH). He passed the math and science sections of the entrance exam, but failed the rest (history, languages, geography, etc.)! Einstein had to go to a trade school before he retook the exam and was finally admitted to ETH a year later .

5. Einstein had an Illegitimate Child
        In the 1980s, Einstein’s private letters revealed something new about the genius: he had an illegitimate daughter with a fellow former student Mileva Maric (whom Einstein later married).
6. Einstein Became Estranged From His First Wife, then Proposed a Strange "Contract".

        A. You will make sure
        1. that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order;
        2. that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room;
        3. that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only.
        B. You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons…

There’s more, including "you will stop talking to me if I request it." She accepted the conditions. He later wrote to her again to make sure she grasped that this was going to be all-business in the future, and that the "personal aspects must be reduced to a tiny remnant." And he vowed, "In return, I assure you of proper comportment on my part, such as I would exercise to any woman as a stranger." .
7. Einstein Didn’t Get Along with His Oldest Son
      After the divorce, Einstein’s relationship with his oldest son, Hans Albert, turned rocky. Hans blamed his father for leaving Mileva, and after Einstein won the Nobel Prize and money, for giving Mileva access only to the interest rather than the principal sum of the award – thus making her life that much harder financially.
8. Einstein, the War Pacifist, Urged FDR to Build the Atom Bomb

      Re-creation of Einstein and Szilárd signing the famous letter to President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939.In 1939, alarmed by the rise of Nazi Germany, physicist Leó Szilárd  convinced Einstein to write a letter to president Franklin Delano Roosevelt warning that Nazi Germany might be conducting research into developing an atomic bomb and urging the United States to develop its own.
The Einstein and Szilárd’s letter was often cited as one of the reasons Roosevelt started the secret Manhattan Project  to develop the atom bomb, although later it was revealed that the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 probably did much more than the letter to spur the government.
Although Einstein was a brilliant physicist, the army considered Einstein a security risk and (to Einstein’s relief) did not invite him to help in the project.
9.  The Saga of Einstein’s Brain: Pickled in a Jar for 43 Years and Driven Cross Country in a Trunk of a Buick!
       After his death in 1955, Einstein’s brain was removed – without permission from his family – by Thomas Stoltz Harvey , the Princeton Hospital pathologist who conducted the autopsy. Harvey took the brain home and kept it in a jar. He was later fired from his job for refusing to relinquish the organ..


(All the information given is from this link http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/10-strange-facts-about-einstein/ )

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