Albert Einstein. When the name comes, you obviously recollect of the genius!
He is the name we are all familiar with. And also to the theory of relativity of Dr.Einstein, as well as the famous equation: E=mc2.
We all know much of Albert, & love him for his work too. Especially those fond of Science & Physics.
But least people know how the young Einstein struggled to prove his theory in the early days. The days when Newton's laws were thought to be absolute & perfect. And also people were orthodoxly studying Physics.
Albert was a born German. A Jew. But later he gave up his German nationality & became swizz. Particularly due to the miserable behavior & extreme tortures to the Jews by German Govt.
In the early days when the theory of relativity was just born & not yet published or brought to people, Albert had to struggle hard to let people believe him.
His early writings were not in English also he used his own set of symbols & not the conventional scientific figures. That was why general people could not perceive his ideas, yet so contradictory to newton, easily. He was believed to be anti god!
Sir Arthur Eddington. Heard his name?
People have almost long back forgotten him.
Arthur Stanley Eddington, (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honor.
He was the man behind the popularity of Albert!
He translated Einstein's works in English. He was the first believer of Albert's theories. He pointed out the difference in the Mercury's orbit, which didn't followed Newton's laws. And that led Albert to relate his theory to the gravity & thus gave birth to the theory of relativity, a theory of everything!
Eddington wrote a number of articles which announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I severed many lines of scientific communication and new developments in German science were not well known in England. He also conducted an eclipse expedition in 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory.
So we must not forget the man behind the great mind!
9/04/2009
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