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• W76708908 abstract "Albert Einstein is the icon of scientific genius. His is one the most recognizable faces in the history of mankind. This paper takes a cursory look at the man who is commonly perceived to be the epitome of eccentricity. We manage to sum up his salient traits which are associated with his name. The traits are based on anecdotal evidence. This linkage will be all the more effective and memorable when we think of Einstein. INTRODUCTION Books on Einstein abound; see for example works by White and Gribbin (1993), Pais (1994) and Fox and Keck (2003). From the plethora of literature, Albert Einstein came across as an interesting yet enigmatic character. He certainly had many traits. It would be interesting and striking if some of his traits could fit into the eight letters making up his name--EINSTEIN that incidentally has the same sequence of letters in the beginning and end. We have searched high and low and come up with the fit. The many traits identified on closer look are a fairly accurate description of the persona. The first letter 'E' stands for eccentricity and Albert Einstein is an embodiment of it. The other traits are enumerated in Table 1 and interestingly some of them do contradict each other. This is Einstein! Eccentric: Michael White and John Gribbin (1993) have aptly described Einstein as the archetypical absent-minded professor, a white-haired, eccentric scientist whom the uninitiated saw as the role model for mad professors everywhere. His extreme distaste for authority was amply displayed in his rebellious stance at school and the state of being stateless. With a tinge of vengeance, Einstein was quoted saying punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself (Jorgodski and Potter, 2001). Intellectual: His intellectual prowess was unquestionable. The three seminal papers on special relativity, Brownian motion and photoelectricity published in 1905 stirred the whole physics community. The ripple effect is still felt a hundred years later in 2005. The United Nations has declared 2005 as the WorldYear of Physics, a rare honor for the discipline! His influence extends to solar-powered devices, GPS units, digital cameras and lasers in DVD players (Yam, 2004). To quote White and Gribbin (1993), What makes Einstein achievement even more astonishing is the fact that it was accomplished by a man who had not yet been granted doctorate, a man who was totally isolated from the rest of the scientific community and who had been rejected even for the most lowly of academic positions. On a more discerning note, Einstein began his career forced to take a job in a patent office since he couldn't get a job in science anywhere and ended with universities around the world courting him to join their faculty (Fox and Keck, 2003). Naive: In the book by White & Gribbin (1993), Einstein's fascination of space and time in adulthood is said to have reaped him great rewards. Most adults regard such things not important but the child-like naivety or innocence with respect to time and space was essential for him to tackle the problem with a fresh perspective. Perhaps one really needs to be temporarily detached from the mundane in order to probe the nebulous, yet very real world all around us that escapes our untutored eye (Koh, 2001). Sarcastic: When Einstein's hypothesis was verified by Eddington's observation on solar eclipse in 1919, he was quoted saying, Today in Germany I am called a German man of science and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. …" @default.
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• W76708908 title "Examining the Enigmatic Einstein." @default.
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