20th Century Figure -- Albert Essay

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In 1915, after some work with other physicists, Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, in a form still used today -- explaining gravitation as a distortion of the structure of space-time by matter. (Isaacson, 2008).

Einstein spent the World War I years in Berlin, continuing to publish and gain attention from the worldwide scientific community. In 1922 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"(Lieber, 2008). From then on Einstein was in demand as a lecturer, teacher, and colleague (not always agreed with). He used his previous work to continually work on what he called his Unified Field Theory, which attempted to bring numerous disciplines together in one solid theory of the universe.
Still, his work was seminal for much of modern physics, and his work remains the basis for current work in the Grand Unification Theory (Weinberg, 1999).

As our person of the century, Einstein shines out with his thoughts on politics, religion, philosophy, Zionism, human nature, and his unending work for global peace. It is ironic, though, that although his work in physics led to the development of the atomic bomb, again, one of the central events of the 20th century that changed the world forever. It was in 1939 that Einstein wrote an impassioned letter to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, urging that the work on a new weapon using fission be developed by the United States before Nazi Germany was able to launch one. This letter eventually resulted in the.....

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