Albert Einstein was born in the Bavarian town of Ulm on March 14, 1879. He was the eldest son of Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch, both Jews whose families came from Swabia. The following year they moved to Munich, where his father was established, along with his brother Jakob, as a merchant in electrotechnical news of the day. Einstein once said that politics had a temporary value, while an equation worth for all eternity. In the last years of his life, the bitterness over not find the formula to reveal the secret of world unity had to be accentuated by the need they felt to intervene dramatically in the political sphere. In 1939, urged by physicists Leo Szilard and Paul Wigner, and convinced of the possibility that the Germans were in a position to make an atomic bomb, addressed to President Roosevelt urging him to undertake a program of research on atomic energy.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:42:38 +0000
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