Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 Years
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Einstein fails to get into college
1:40 Einstein’s grades at Zurich Polytechnic
2:02 Einstein irritates his university professors
2:51 Meeting Mileva Maric and illegitimate daughter Lieserl
4:40 Einstein fails to get a job
6:34 Working as a third-rate patent clerk
8:18 The ‘miracle’ year in 1905 starting with the photoelectric effect paper
9:10 Brownian Motion
9:40 Special theory of relativity
10:55 E = MC2
11:26 Einstein still struggles to get a job following 1905 papers
12:52 Falling in love with his Berlin cousin
13:09 Einstein and wife divorce
13:57 Elevator analogy for General Theory of Relativity
15:22 How the sun warps starlight
16:02 Einstein’s controversial character
17:21 Dropping the atomic bomb
18:25 Einstein troubled by quantum entanglement
19:05 Struggle to find a uniform field theory
Special thanks to Soojin Han for permission to feature her performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3
Full video of the performance • Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 - Soojin ...
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Sources:
Lipoid Gymnasium, Einstein’s high school in Germany: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Maxwell equations: FF-UK, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Swiss Patent Office in Bern Gidoca, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Italian cemetery where Hermann Einstein is buried: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands showcasing Einstein’s fountain pen Museum Boerhaave, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
NASA’s animation of how the sun warps starlight
Animator: Scott Wiessinger
