A Well Known Genuis - Albert Einstein By Shawna S. Ruppert

Some people help shape the world through their work and their legacy, others completely reform it in a flash with their accomplishments. Albert Einstein was one of the latter, and many scientists believe that people will still be making new discoveries and finding new applications based on his theories for generations to come. Albert Einstein trivia begins with the fact that he was born in 1879 in the German Empire. He was not as many have imagined some kind of child prodigy, although he did show aptitude for mathematics. Einstein's genius came more from the fact that he worked hard and believed in allowing for free thinking and creativity in learning, something that would make him clash with teachers and members of the educational institutions he attended on more than one occasion, facts likely to appear on any Albert Einstein quiz.
Albert Einstein trivia can be a bit complex for those who are not physicists themselves, simply because most of the mans work and writing were so technical and specific that it can be hard for the non-initiate to grasp the significance of many of these discoveries. His earlier work however, regarded proving the existence of atoms for one, something which was suspected but not entirely accepted by the scientific community, and thermodynamics for a second.
An Albert Einstein quiz is almost certainly going to reference his theory of relativity, easily the most well known equation in modern science, although most who could quote the equation could not explain its true significance. The formula is of course E=mc2 which describes how a large amount of energy is contained in tiny amounts of mass. The most famous, or infamous, development which arose from this equation is the development of the nuclear bomb.
Albert Einstein, despite being one of the most important minds of the past century, was as all men are, imperfect, and did make mistakes in his papers or posit theories which were later disproved. Although, like any good scientist he was happy to revise his position when he was proven wrong. One concept that he was frequently against was the possibility that a black hole could form, and his opinions were of course so well respected that it would take until several years after his death for people to change their opinions on this matter. Einstein was the recipient of the nobel prize for physics in 1921, for his discovery of the photoelectric effect.