Friday, June 19, 2009

The People

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, 1921
Albert Einstein, 1921
Born 14 March 1879(1879-03-14)
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Residence Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Citizenship Württemberg/Germany (1879–96)
Switzerland (1901–55)
Austria (1911–12)
Germany (1914–33)
United States (1940–55)
Ethnicity Ashkenazi Jewish
Fields Physics
Institutions Swiss Patent Office (Berne)
University of Zurich
German Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, Prague
ETH Zurich
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
University of Leiden
Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater ETH Zurich
University of Zurich
Doctoral advisor Alfred Kleiner
Other academic advisors Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Notable students Ernst G. Straus
Known for General relativity
Special relativity
Photoelectric effect
Brownian motion
Mass-energy equivalence
Einstein field equations
Unified Field Theory
Bose–Einstein statistics
Notable awards Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Copley Medal (1925)
Max Planck Medal (1929)
Person of the Century
Religious stance See main text
Signature
Albert Einstein's signature


J. Robert Oppenheimer
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), "the father of the atomic bomb", worked on the first nuclear weapons before becoming a government advisor.
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967), "the father of the atomic bomb", worked on the first nuclear weapons before becoming a government advisor.
Born April 22, 1904
New York, New York, U.S.
Died February 18, 1967
(aged 62)
Princeton, New Jersey
Residence United States
Nationality American
Ethnicity Ashkenazi Jewish
Fields Physics
Institutions Manhattan Project
University of California, Berkeley
California Institute of Technology
Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater Harvard University
University of Cambridge
University of Göttingen
Doctoral advisor Max Born
Doctoral students Willis Lamb
David Bohm
Robert Christy
Melba Phillips
Philip Morrison
Siegfried Wouthuysen
Other notable students Julian Schwinger
Stan Frankel
Samuel W. Alderson
Known for Atomic bomb development
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
Oppenheimer-Phillips process
Notable awards Enrico Fermi Award
Notes
Brother of physicist Frank Oppenheimer

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