15 Things You Didn't Know About Albert Einstein

 15 Things About Albert Einstein

fifteen things you didn't know about Albert Einstein's welcome to a Lux calm the place where future billionaires come to get inspired hello there a Luxor's and welcome to yet another fantastic fact-filled video as I'm sure you know here I deluxe our commitment is to giving you insights into some of the biggest and best things in life from luxury vacations resorts to celebrities historic icons and one such historic icon that everybody in the world should know something about is the amenable Albert Einstein born in all Germany on March 14 1879 Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist who was responsible for developing many of the key scientific theories in modern culture he is perhaps best known for his mass energy formula e equals MC squared dubs it the world's most famous equation although it would be fair to say that everybody in the world has heard the name Albert Einstein it's our job to give you a further insight into the world of such an iconic figure so without further ado here are 15 things you didn't know about Albert Einstein number one he was an average student although his name is now one associated with the peak of learning and intellect it might surprise you to know that Albert Einstein was actually a rather average student in his youth though not a struggler Einstein did not excel in any of the traditional school subject during his childhood except for one that is can you guess which that's right Albert was unsurprisingly the top of a class when it came to mathematics a false fact is often shared on the web about his having failed the subject but we can confirm that this can be farther from the truth number two he was a talented musician not only a math genius Einstein was also an incredibly talented musician as a child he grew up with a mother who was an incredibly talented piano player and this led to a love of music being installed in him young age if the whole math and science genius path hadn't worked out it is said by those who knew him but I'm saying could have forced a career as a world-class violinist number three he was married twice Einstein liked women after his death letters revealed he maintained close connections with six women spending time with them and receiving gifts from them he married twice his first wife was physicist.

Mileva Maric whom he married in 1903 and divorced in 1919 in the same year he married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal whom he had a romantic relationship since 1912 the spy son both being married Albert and Mileva had two sons hands.

Albert 1904 to 1973 and Edouard 1910 to 1965 Elsa died in 1936 number four he also had an illegitimate child a fact that was hidden from public knowledge until it became light in the 1980s Einstein apparently had an illegitimate daughter from before his marriage in 1902 old correspondence between Albert and his first wife revealed they had a daughter named Liz arel a year before their nuptials mysteriously all mention of the child came to an abrupt end in the letters to one another and the fate of little Israel has remained unknown till this day number five he was worth 1 million dollars at the time of his death on the 18th of April 1955 it is believed that I signed an estimate net worth of a million dollars this equates to roughly nine million dollars in today's money using his genius intellect his wealth amazed from various publications and patents of his most well-known theories though a million dollars doesn't seem like the kind of figure that you would associate with such an influential figure that kind of sum in 1952 was certainly enough to be able to live like a king and continue to spread your knowledge without financial worries

number 6 he promised his nobel prize money before can't even won it during the process of drawing up divorce papers between he and his first wife aren't Stein put in writing that he promised Mileva the monetary from winning the Nobel Prize for Physics the only unusual thing about this promise Einstein was still two years away from actually being awarded the prize of course Mileva did not have to worry because of anything was ever a dead cert it was the fact that Albert Einstein was going to win the Nobel Prize at some point he stayed true to his word and

awarded his life the winning number seven Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 the citation for the prize is for services to theoretical physics however he didn't win for the reason you might first think the prize was not in recognition of his work on the special and general theories of relativity that he is perhaps best regarded for and said Einstein received the prestigious accolade for his work on the photoelectric effect which is the admission from the electrons when light is shone directly onto a material number eight there is evidence to suggest that Einstein's wife co-authored the theory of relativity if this is indeed true then it wasn't so unusual that Mileva received his Nobel Prize winning in 1905 prize-winning Russian physicist abram said of rish loss claims have seen the original manuscript for the theory of relativity stating that it was signed by Einstein Merrick as Einstein did not leave any documents which acknowledged the contribution of his former life law claims can but be left unproven number nine Albert Einstein changed citizenship twice unsign was born a German Jew he renounces German citizenship in 1896 in order to avoid conscription and move to Switzerland where he was officially stateless until becoming a Swiss citizen in 1901 he returned to the German Empire 1914 to take up the post of director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of physics during his tenure he undertook various excursions including to the United States in 1933 with Hitler's rise to power he was in the US when he realized he could never return to Germany Einstein became a US citizen in 1940 number 10 he had big New York connections throughout a career Einstein built strong and long-lasting connections with the city of New York

he first visited New York in April of 1921 where he was treated to an official welcome by the mayor John Francis Hyland incredibly proud of his Jewish heritage Einstein also joined the crowd of 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden for a mass Hanukkah celebration there is also a permanent reminder of the Great Physician in the form of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx established a year after his death in 1953 you can find out much more about the wonderful city of New York in our dedicated video just click the top right hand corner number 11 he has a large brain officially in fact the period of lobe in Einstein's brain was 15% larger than that of an average brain when albert was born in 1879 there was fears from both his mother and from attending physician so he may have been deformed due to the unusual large sizes head those fears soon laid to rest.

however as the story goes that little baby's body grow quickly to match up with the size of his head perhaps so large because it was already accommodating one of the biggest brain the world has ever known post-mortem research on Einstein's brain suggested it had a high number of glial cells per neuron which scientists have analyzed to mean Einstein had better thinking abilities and conceptual skills than average number 12 you can visit I signs brain Einstein's brain was the source of much fascination and amazement for scientists and subject who analyzed.

it was also the subject of some controversy as people felt pathologist 1 Thomas Harvey went beyond the remnant of a post mortem because he cut up the brain is 240 pieces of roughly one cubic centimeter 46 of those pieces were acquired by the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia USA and is currently one of only two places in the world where Einstein's brain is on public display number 13 he has a massive library of works unsign is widely recognized as one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen although the theory of relativity is one of the two pillars of modern physics together with quantum mechanics his knowledge theories and influence are immeasurable he published more than 300 scientific papers one in 2014 the university's archives and libraries of the world announced the release of Einstein's papers amounted to 30,000 unique documents number 14 on Stein was against the nuclear bomb many people associate Einstein with the development of the nuclear bomb Einstein was in fact a pacifist and because he was horrified that the work going on in Germany to develop nuclear fission into a weapon of mass destruction he was persuaded to write a letter to the President Franklin D Roosevelt it is accepted the letter was the catalyst for the u.s. to start the Manhattan Project which eventually presented the nuclear bomb to the world in 1945 he went against his pacifist principles because of the danger he saw if Hitler had atom bombs but he would continue his fights throughout his life being particularly active in a civil rights movement and in Jewish issues number 15 he could have been Israeli president Israel's first president was Chaim Weizmann and when he died in November 1952 the position was offered to Albert Einstein before his death Wineman had often referred to a sign as the greatest jewel lie and when then Jung State lost his first figurehead

they turned to him to lead them into a new Israeli era feeling that he wasn't equipped to rule nation Einstein politely declined the offer stating I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it so there you have it a lectures 15 fun facts about Albert Einstein one of the world's most important and influential minds did the work of Einstein inspire you to go into physics do you have a favorite scientific discovery of his let us know down in the comments and for all of you who have stayed with us until the very end here is a bonus fact for you.

Einstein never wore socks this amazingly brilliant man who won the Nobel Prize the copeley medal and the max planck medal the Franklin medal and the burner medal and the mature C medal and the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical a man who was named Time magazine's Person of the century hated socks he also wasn't much a fan of haircuts.