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Chris Hall Miss Dennis English 1301.099 November 9, 2013 Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879. His notable contributions included helping to develop the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1905 Einstein published a paper that described experimental data from the photoelectric effect as being the result of light energy being carried in discrete quantized packets. This led to the quantum revolution and later earned him his Nobel Prize. In the 1920s, he …show more content…

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice." Bohr in response told Einstein to "Stop telling God what He must do!" Bohr could disprove every criticism that Einstein had on the Copenhagen interpretation. In 1924, Einstein received a short paper from a young Indian physicist named Satyendra Nath Bose. This paper described light as a gas of photons and was based on a counting method that assumed that light could be understood as a gas of indistinguishable particles. Bose requested that Einstein assist in getting the paper published. Upon reading the paper Einstein realized that the same statistics could be applied to atoms. He then went on to publish an article in German, which described Bose's model and explained its allegations. Today, Bose-Einstein statistics describe any assembly of these indistinguishable particles known as bosons. The Bose-Einstein condensate phenomenon was predicted in the 1920s by Bose and Einstein, based on Bose's work on the statistical mechanics of photons, which was then formalized and generalized by Einstein. In 1926 Einstein and former student Leó Szilárd co-invented a unique type of refrigerator called the Einstein refrigerator. On November 11, 1930, U.S. Patent 1,781,541 was presented to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd. The refrigerator was a single-pressure absorption refrigerator. The refrigeration cycle uses ammonia

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