Einstein Flashcards
WORLD CAPITALS: Among the many sights to see in this capital is the home where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905
Bern, Switzerland
“K”9: Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than” this (he had a lot of both)
knowledge
THE ELEMENT: Discovered in 1952, it was named for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Century”
einsteinium
GENIUS: Albert’s first wife was Mileva Maric; in the divorce, he promised her the money from this award he hadn’t won yet
the Nobel Peace Prize
EINSTEIN: Little Albert learned to play this musical instrument and was pretty good at it
the violin
QUOTES $300: Albert Einstein said this woman scientist was “the only one whom fame has not corrupted”
Marie Curie
NUCLEAR PHYSICS $300: In nuclear fission mass from the neutron and the bombarded nucleus become energy as per this equation
E=mc2
SCIENCE and NATURE $800: Einstein’s famous equation states energy equals mass times this squared
the speed of light
“I” AYE $600: Albert Einstein once remarked that this ability to visualize “is more important than knowledge”
imagination
TIME’S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: Albert Einstein was the Person of the Century; in 1949 this British statesman was the man of the half-century
Winston Churchill
JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS : This city was home to our favorite “German-American physicist” for the last 20 years of his life
Princeton
STATE-LY HOMES: The home where Albert Einstein spent his last 20 years is in this state
New Jersey
RELATIVITY AT 100: This property, the middle letter in the familiar version of Einstein’s famous equation, grows with velocity
mass