Wednesday, March 3, 2010


Fun Facts:


Some things that Albert liked to do was playing the violin and sailing.
Here is a list of all of the prizes he got:
Nobel Prize in physics: 1921, Named 1st honorary citizen of tel Aviv: 1923, Copley Medal, Royal Society of London: 1925, Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, London: 1926, Franklin Institute Medal: 1935, offered presidency of Israel but declined: 1952, got honorary degrees from Universities of Geneva, Zurich, Restock, Madrid, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, New York State, and Yeshiva.
Here are some jobs he had:
Theoretical Physicist, peace activist and writer, a teacher at Winterthur tech school: 1901,Swiss Patient office, Bern, Switzerland, technical assistant: 1902-1909, University of Bern, Bern lecturer: 1908-1909, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, associate professor of physics: 1909-1911, German University Prague, Czechoslovakia, professor of physics: 1911-1912, Swiss federal institute of technology, Zurich professor of physics: 1912-1914, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, professor of physics: 1914-c-1932, Kaiser Wincer Institute for physics, Berlin, Director: 1914-c-1932, Institute for advanced study, Princeton, New Jersey, p[professor of theoretical physics: 1933-1945, life member: 1933-1955, Herbert Spencer lecturer at Oxford University: 1933, participated in the world government movement.

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