News tagged with albert einstein

Molecular fingerprint discovered that may improve outcomes for head and neck cancer patients

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have found a biomarker in head and neck cancers that can predict whether a patient's ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Special relativity from first principles

Einstein’s explanation of special relativity, delivered in his 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies focuses on demolishing the idea of ‘absolute rest’, exemplified by the theoreti ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (20) | comments 60

U of Toronto experiment named top breakthrough of 2011 by Physics World

Aephraim Steinberg and colleagues at the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto had the top physics breakthrough of the year according to Physics World magazine.

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 19

Why Einstein was wrong about being wrong

If you want to get your mind around the research that won three astronomers the Nobel Prize in physics last week, it helps to think of the universe as a lump of dough - raisin-bread dough, to be precise - mixed, kneaded and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 113

Are Nobels out of step with science?

This year's crop of Nobel prizes has sharpened a sometimes bitter debate as to whether science's top awards should each be limited to just three individuals in an era of collaborative research.

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 35

Gravitational waves that are 'sounds of the universe'

Einstein wrote about them, and we're still looking for them -- gravitational waves, which are small ripples in the fabric of space-time, that many consider to be the sounds of our universe.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Challenging Einstein is usually a losing venture

(AP) -- Betting against Einstein and his theory of relativity is a way to go broke. For more than a century, everyone from physicists to the Nazi Party - which encouraged the publication of the tract "One ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 27

Gee Whizzz! Basics on faster-than-light research

Some questions and answers about the experiment that appeared to show particles speeding faster than light.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 19

Physicists wary of junking light speed limit yet

(AP) -- Physicists on the team that measured particles traveling faster than light said Friday they were as surprised as their skeptics about the results, which appear to violate the laws of nature as we ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 20

Roll over Einstein: Law of physics challenged (Update 3)

One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - was rocked Thursday by new findings from one of the world's foremost laboratories.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (99) | comments 181

Living out Einstein's dreams - French researchers make quantum breakthrough

A team of EU-funded researchers has, for the first time, successfully carried out a constant stabilisation experiment of a quantum state - something Albert Einstein himself once dreamt of.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Senegal dreams of 'African Einstein' with new science hub

A mathematics institute which opened in Senegal this week is the first step to creating a west African science centre, which backers hope could produce the continent's own Albert Einstein.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 10, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

TB vaccine candidate shows early promise in mice

A potential vaccine against tuberculosis has been found to completely eliminate tuberculosis bacteria from infected tissues in some mice. The vaccine was created with a strain of bacteria that, due to the absence of a few ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum optical link sets new time records

Quantum communication could be an option for the absolutely secure transfer of data. The key component in quantum communication over long distances is the special phenomenon called entanglement between two ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Psychiatrists failing to adequately monitor patients for metabolic side-effects of prescribed drugs

(Medical Xpress) -- New research from the University of Leicester demonstrates that psychiatrists are not offering adequate checks for metabolic complications that are common in patients with mental ill health - especially ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (pronounced /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n] ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was an ethnically Jewish, German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theories of special relativity and general relativity. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

Einstein's many contributions to physics include:

Einstein published more than 300 scientific works and more than 150 non-scientific works. In 1999 Time magazine named him the Person of the Century, and in the words of a biographer, "to the scientifically literate and the public at large, Einstein is synonymous with genius."

For more information about Albert Einstein, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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