Beehive A Truly Beautiful Mind - CBSE Revision Notes

CBSE Class 09 English Language and Literature
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Beehive Chapter-4
A Truly Beautiful Mind

Albert Einstein was considered as a scientific genius. He was also a gifted amateur violinist.
He was born on 14 March 1879 in the German city of Ulm.
Einstein went to high school in Munich but he did not like school regimentation and left the school. He continued his education in Switzerland and then decided to study at a university in Zurich.
In 1902, he secured a job as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern.
In 1903 he married Mileva Maric, his fellow student and in 1919 they got divorced. In the same year Einstein married his cousin Elsa.
In 1905, Einstein developed the Special Theory of Relativity according to which time and distance are not absolute.
In 1915, he published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation of gravity.
Einstein received the Noble Prize for Physics in 1921.
Albert moved to U.S in 1933. With the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin, American physicists were afraid that the Nazis could build and use an atomic bomb.
In 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President, Roosevelt, warning him about the consequences of the atomic bomb.
The Americans developed the atomic bomb secretly and dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Einstein was deeply shaken by the vast destruction and wrote to the United Nations to form a world government but this made no impact.
Later Einstein got more involved in politics. He agitated against arms and campaigned for peace and democracy.
He died in 1955 at 76. He was then celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius.