Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Born on March 14th 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. He grew up in a jewish family. His father’s name was Hermann Einstein. His mother’s name was Pauline Einstein. He had one sister named Maja, who was two years younger than him.
In the late 1880s a Polish medical student named Max Talmud began to tutor Albert . Max introduced Albert to science. It was Max’s teachings that inspired Albert to investigate the nature of light.
In 1896 he was accepted into the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. He was accepted because of his high scores in math and physics on the entrance exam. He had to receive a high school education before he could attend the Institute so he attended a high school in Aarau, Switzerland.
After a long time of searching and switching jobs, Einstein eventually found a steady job after receiving a referral for a clerk position in a Swiss patent office. While working at the patent office he was able to work on ideas that had culminated during his time at the Polytechnic Institute. He works on the theorems that would become his theory of relativity.
1905 was considered by many to be the “miracle year” for Einstein.
Einstein had four papers published in the Annalen der Physik, one of the best known physics journals of the era. The four papers focused on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, the special theory of relativity and the matter/energy relationship.
In November 1915 he finished his general theory of relativity. He considered it the product of his life's work. In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics for his theory of relativity. Because his ideas on relativity were still not completely proven true, he received the prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
In the late 1880s a Polish medical student named Max Talmud began to tutor Albert . Max introduced Albert to science. It was Max’s teachings that inspired Albert to investigate the nature of light.
In 1896 he was accepted into the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. He was accepted because of his high scores in math and physics on the entrance exam. He had to receive a high school education before he could attend the Institute so he attended a high school in Aarau, Switzerland.
After a long time of searching and switching jobs, Einstein eventually found a steady job after receiving a referral for a clerk position in a Swiss patent office. While working at the patent office he was able to work on ideas that had culminated during his time at the Polytechnic Institute. He works on the theorems that would become his theory of relativity.
1905 was considered by many to be the “miracle year” for Einstein.
Einstein had four papers published in the Annalen der Physik, one of the best known physics journals of the era. The four papers focused on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, the special theory of relativity and the matter/energy relationship.
In November 1915 he finished his general theory of relativity. He considered it the product of his life's work. In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics for his theory of relativity. Because his ideas on relativity were still not completely proven true, he received the prize for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Bobby Jones
Bobby Jones
On March 17, 1902 Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones was the first great American golfer, he was the hero of the nicknamed “Golden Age of Sports” in America along with many other athletes like Babe Ruth, Jack Dennison, Bill Tilden, and Red Grange.
Bobby Jones had the perfect swing few players could do. His father, a successful attorney, joined the Atlanta Athletic Club, which owned the East Lake Country Club in DeKalb county, where his family spent every summer for years. It was there at East Lake where Jones learned to play golf, mostly by imitating the swing of the club’s top player, Stewart Maiden.
Jones did improve his skills with each passing summer. After winning numerous regional events, in the fall of 1916 he entered the first ever national competition, The USA Amatur, held at Marion Criket Club near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Even though he was eliminated in the third round, the fourteen year old exceeded the expectations of most spectators and was quickly named the nation’s top golf progeny. Unfortunately, he didn’t continue to meet either his own or other spectator’s expectations. During the next seven seasons, he failed to win any bigger than a regional event. To make the situation worse, Jones managed to develop a spoiled, club throwing hothead reputation. He was a perfectionist by nature, he was easily angered and too immature to handle his own mistakes.
His most memorable unsportsmanlike behavior was at the British Open in 1921 where after struggling through the first half of the third round, he picked up his ball on the eleventh hole, viciously tore up his scorecard and quit. During the winter of 1922-23 Jones experienced a metamorphosis, he developed from a hotheaded youth into a young disciplined gentlemen on and off the course. He ended up winning his first major title, the U.S. Open, later that year to begin his eighth season domination of golf. In the 1920s Jones won the event four times and also had four runner up finishes.
On March 17, 1902 Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones was the first great American golfer, he was the hero of the nicknamed “Golden Age of Sports” in America along with many other athletes like Babe Ruth, Jack Dennison, Bill Tilden, and Red Grange.
Bobby Jones had the perfect swing few players could do. His father, a successful attorney, joined the Atlanta Athletic Club, which owned the East Lake Country Club in DeKalb county, where his family spent every summer for years. It was there at East Lake where Jones learned to play golf, mostly by imitating the swing of the club’s top player, Stewart Maiden.
Jones did improve his skills with each passing summer. After winning numerous regional events, in the fall of 1916 he entered the first ever national competition, The USA Amatur, held at Marion Criket Club near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Even though he was eliminated in the third round, the fourteen year old exceeded the expectations of most spectators and was quickly named the nation’s top golf progeny. Unfortunately, he didn’t continue to meet either his own or other spectator’s expectations. During the next seven seasons, he failed to win any bigger than a regional event. To make the situation worse, Jones managed to develop a spoiled, club throwing hothead reputation. He was a perfectionist by nature, he was easily angered and too immature to handle his own mistakes.
His most memorable unsportsmanlike behavior was at the British Open in 1921 where after struggling through the first half of the third round, he picked up his ball on the eleventh hole, viciously tore up his scorecard and quit. During the winter of 1922-23 Jones experienced a metamorphosis, he developed from a hotheaded youth into a young disciplined gentlemen on and off the course. He ended up winning his first major title, the U.S. Open, later that year to begin his eighth season domination of golf. In the 1920s Jones won the event four times and also had four runner up finishes.