1. Einstein cared little for money. He once used a $1500.00 check as a bookmark and then lost the book. (Imagine how much that check is worth now, considering inflation.)
2. Never learned how to drive a car. (But he loved riding his bike for scientific -- and I guess environmental? -- reason.)
3. After his death, his brain was weighed and found to be 1.5 kg (2.64 lb). It is now preserved in a glass jar in Wichita, KS. (Mine would probably be 1% of that mass.)
4. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 (for his discovery of the Photoelectric Effect).
5. An element, Einsteinium, is named after him. (Hah! Beat that, Landon Carter!)So, Happy Birthday, Dude!
PS: This is not photoshopped:
4 comments:
re no. 1: pareho pala kami? he! he!
Have you read the novel Einstein's Dreams? It's a nice read. =)
Thanks for the trivia!
kg, pare-pareho tayo. :-) hehehe.
wits, oo, my brother has a copy of the book. nakibasa din ako. maganda siya. first reading ko nun: surreal ang dating. hehehe. i like it. :-)
hahaha i wonder if that famous photo of him sticking his tongue out is photoshopped. if not, i wonder what he was thinking when he posed for the camera.
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