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Einstein's Life Up To 1905
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 28, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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electro, Lieserl, Swiss, Mileva, short, calculus, electrical, authoritarian, notes, girlfriends, Weber, insurance, Maxwell, teachers, five, German, enjoyed, hierarchical, encouragement, Italy, attractive, pregnant, behind, London, two, Prussian, job, French, teach, expanding, German, failed, gravity, Patent, stateless, woman, medicine, Serbian, Professor, farm, family, antagonized, 1905, 1666, father, plague, citizenship, Polytechnic, Munich, Ostwald, graduated, optimistic, limp, 1879, bankrupt, Bern
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"annus mirabilis"
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phrase originally referred to
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the year          for Isaac Newton
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in              at university
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outbreak of             
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retreated to family          to get away from plague where he
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1. laid his foundations for the theory of               
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2. came up with his theory of                 
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because of these astounding discoveries by someone in his 20s, 1666 was called his "miracle year"
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Einstein at a similar year in         
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pathway up to 1905
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born in         
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youth in             
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father and uncle started an                      business
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electrical lighting
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went to school in the              school system
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very rigid and                         
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militaristic                  slant
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Einstein rebelled against this very strongly
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he had an anti-                           streak in him
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at 16, renounced his Germany                       
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his father let him do this
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for several years he was                   
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eventually became a            citizen but that took several years
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later became a              citizen again, when he became famous and Germany wanted to claim him
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applied to Swiss Federal                        in Zurich
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applied a year early,              first time
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did well in science and math
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             was one of his weak areas
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Professor           
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told him to come back in a year
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one of the two primary physics professors at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic
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Einstein                his lectures early on
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later felt Weber was              the times
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e.g. didn't include               's equations
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Einstein didn't address him as "Herr                    Weber" but "Herr Weber"
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Weber said he was a smart person but no one can            you anything
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met              Marić
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               physicist
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only            in Einstein's physics class
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although many women in Europe went to Zurich since in many countries they were not allowed to go to study at a university
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originally she was going to study                 
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they were essentially studying to be high school physics                 
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not professors
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but there was a burgeoning               -technic industry
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so needed high school physics teachers to train future workers
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1900                   
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grades were decent but tailed off at end
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relied on friends'            to pass exams
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Mileva actually did not pass
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applied for jobs
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married Mileva
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caused family and career tensions
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Einstein's              did not care for Mileva
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she was Serbian
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very           
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not conventionally                     
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defect in her hip, walked with a         
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Einstein's mother had another favorite among his earlier                       
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Einstein had impertinent tendencies
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Einstein wanted to get a position as a professor's assistant
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but he had                        Weber
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Weber had given him a bad reputation to his colleagues
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a poignant letter from Einstein's              to a Professor Ostwald at Leipzig
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my son feels profoundly unhappy with his lack of position
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read his paper and write to him a few words of                           
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1894 Einstein's father went                 
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weighed on Einstein, father was more                     
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no record of a response from professor
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nine years later, this Professor                was first to elect Einstein for a Nobel prize
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1901 Einstein and Mileva romantic time in           
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Mileva became                 
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more anxiety for the young couple
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Einstein considered to go into                    just to make money
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Marcel Grossmann
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actually went to lecture and took notes that Einstein didn't
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Einstein was often in the laboratories
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his father knew the head of the Swiss              Office
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electromagnetic industry
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an analogy with the computer industry in our time
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patent office was                    in this area
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Einstein wasn't perfectly qualified for it
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1902 got        at Swiss Patent Office
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was able to continue to do some physics
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was in the city of         
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he and a couple of his friends put together the Olympia Academy
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would read and discuss books intently
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physics, philosophy, literature
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published a few papers
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but was essentially out of academics
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daughter                was born
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we don't know what happened to her
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she was discovered only in the 1980s
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not known during Einstein's lifetime
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might have died at age        from Scarlet Fever
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affected Mileva profoundly
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Mileva joined Albert in Bern
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1905 year he began famous
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published          papers

Spelling Corrections:

refered ⇒ referred
rebeled ⇒ rebelled

Ideas and Concepts:

From the famous intellectual salon department via tonight's Understanding Einstein course: "In 1901, before Einstein was able to land a secure job as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, he put an ad in the newspaper offering his tutoring services in mathematics and physics. Two men by the name of Conrad Habicht and Maurice Solovine answered his ad, and while neither tutorials nor payment ever materialized, the three began to meet regularly to discuss their shared interest in physics and philosophy, and in 1902 named themselves the Akademie Olympia. The three discussed their own work and read other works such as Karl Pearson's The Grammar of Science, Ernst Mach's Analyse der Empfindungen, Henri Poincaré's Wissenschaft und Hypothese, John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, and literary works such as Cervantes' Don Quixote. Despite the brief existence of the Academy, it had a lasting effect on the three friends, and they remained in touch throughout their lives."
Pre-Einstein Physics up to 1905
Einstein's Life Up To 1905
The Annus Mirabilis Papers of 1905
Dirac, Einstein, and Mathematical Beauty
Events, Clocks, and Observers