Albert Einstein’s Legacy

A Summary

What is a Legacy?Something handed down or inherited from

generation to generation.

The greatest impact on the 20th century?

Albert Einstein

1879-1955

Family

Science

Society

Hans Albert

Eduard

Lieserl

Molecular Theory

Special Relativity

Pacifism

Atomic Energy

Culture

Zionism

Philosophy/Religion

Quantum Mechanics

Unified Field Theory

General Relativity

Albert Einstein’s Legacy

Albert Einstein

1879-1955

Lieserl Einstein1902-?

Hans Albert Einstein

1904-1973

Eduard Einstein1910-1965

Bernhard Caesar1930 -

Klaus Martin1932-1938

Evelyn1941 -

Albert Einstein’s Family

Hermann Einstein

1847-1902

Pauline Koch1858-1920

Mileva Maric1875-1948

Elsa Einstein1876-1936

Rudolf Einstein

Fanny Koch

Maya Einstein1881-1951

http://genforum.genealogy.com/einstein/messages/13.html - possible genealogy

Frieda Knecht-1958

Elizabeth Roboz

Thomas Martin1955 -

Margot Einstein1899-1986

Ilse Einstein1897-1934

This tree is based on a quick search and is incomplete.

Max Loewenthal1864-1914

Paul Winteler-1952

Son - 1903

ScienceMolecular Studies

Special Relativity

Unified Field Theory ??

General Relativity

Atomic TheoryThermodynamicsGases and Solids

ElectromagnetismAether

Speed of LightSpace and Time E=mc2

Gravitation Planetary Motion Mercury’s Orbit

Astronomy

Space-time Relative

Time DilationLength Contraction

Brownian Motion

Molecular Theory

Specific Heat

Bending of light

Black Holes

Cosmology

Big Bang

Gravitational WavesTheory of Gravity

Atomic Energy

GPS

Quantum MechanicsThermodynamicsSpectra of Gases

Blackbody Radiation

Photoelectric Effect

Challenges to QM

Lasers, CD players, …

Photons

Nuclear Structure

Quantum Theory

QED, QCD

Molecular Dynamics

Theory of Solids

Optical Communication

Quantum Computing

String Theory, TOEGeneral Relativity

Quantum Mechanics

Astrophysics

Society

Pacifism

Zionism

League of the New Fatherland

Anti-war Movement 1925-1932

Comm. of Intellectual Cooperation

(League of Nations)

Jewish, secular house

Supported refuge for surviving Jews

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Offered Israeli Presidency

Atomic Energy

E=mc2

World Government

Emergency Committee of

Atomic ScientistsBulletin of Atomic Scientists

Letter to Roosevelt

Russell-Einstein Manifesto – 1955

Last letter signed!

Pugwash Conferences

Philosophy and Religion

What is Reality?

Origins of the Universe

God?

Determinism vs Free Will

Culture

Architecture

Literature

Science Fiction

Art, Photography, Video

Cultural Icon

Anti-military

Democratic/Civil rights

Against Arab-Jewish Attacks - 1948

Socialism

Anti-McCarthyism

Phrases

• Time and space are relative.

• Matter tells space how to bend and space tells matter how to move

• God does not play dice

Quotes• Academic Freedom – “the right to search for truth and to publish

and teach what one holds to be true.”• “Mahatma Gandhi's life achievement stands unique in political

history. He has invented a completely new and humane means for the liberation war of an oppressed country, and practised it with greatest energy and devotion. The moral influence he had on the conciously thinking human being of the entire civilized world will probably be much more lasting than it seems in our time with its overestimation of brutal violent forces. Because lasting will only be the work of such statesmen who wake up and strengthen the moral power of their people through their example and educational works.We may all be happy and grateful that destiny gifted us with such an enlightened contemporary, a role model for the generations to come.” 1931

• “If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.” - 1945