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Albert Einstein

by Omer from Lod

Heroes, they are something most of us have, they are the ones to make us set our goals far beyond what is possible. It is in my belief that a hero is a person that will make an impact on someone, or the entire world, someone whose name precedes him. A person who gives others the motivation to excel in everything they want. As I see it, Albert Einstein answers all my criteria as to what a hero is.

Albert Einstein, was born in Germany on March 14th, 1879. He was born to Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. Einstein attended a Catholic elementary school in Munich from the age of 5 for 3 years. When he was 8 he was transferred to the Lutipold Gymnasium (now known as the Einstein Gymnasium). In 1895 Einstein took the entrance exams for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, he failed to reach the required grade in the general part of the test but he excelled in mathematics and physics.

Einstein was married to two women and had children only from his first wife (Maric), they had two children. Einstein traveled in 1922 to Asia and Palestine, and went on a speaking tour, when he traveled to Japan he gave a series of lessons to thousands of Japanese. After his first time speaking in public, Einstein sent a letter to his sons, he described the Japanese being modest, intelligent, considerate, and having true feel for art.

As you can see, his early biography was not what made him a hero since his deeds were all in science, more specifically, physics. Einstein developed the theory of relativity. This theory is one of the most important breakthroughs of today's modern physics. This theory enabled us to know more about the time, space, mass, movement and gravity. Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. For most of us, Einstein is known for the mass-energy equivalence that he wrote: E=mc2.

On the eve of World War II, Einstein sent a letter to Frank D. Roosevelt, alerting him to the potential development of "extremely powerful bombs of a new type" and he recommended the U.S. to begin a similar research. This led to the start of the Manhattan Project. Einstein supported defending allied forces, but generally he didn't like the idea of using the newly discovered nuclear fission as a weapon.

In April of 1933, Einstein discovered that the German government had passed a law which didn't allow Jewish scientists to teach at universities, so Jews were forced to lose their university positions. As a Jewish German scientist, Einstein asked several English politicians for help to bring Jewish scientists out of Germany, and he also wrote a letter to the Turkish Prime Minister asking for the same. Both countries responded favorably and just in Turkey alone over 1000 Jewish scientists were saved.

In 1946 Einstein went to Lincoln University which is placed in Pennsylvania, there he was awarded an honorary degree. (Lincoln University was the first University to allow African American people to learn there)

In 1954, Einstein told his friend " I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them ..."

Einstein's cause of death was internal bleeding, which he had previously diagnosed in 1948. Einstein died in New Jersey, United States on 18th of April 1955.

I chose Albert Einstein to be my hero for one serious reason: his theories which most of us can barely understand are important knowledge that will benefit humans, will make us have a better understanding of our planet, solar system, galaxy, and universe. Einstein invested his entire life researching and learning to realize more things, to know more. In addition, it made me very proud reading about the actions he did, such as saving Jewish scientists' lives by getting them out of Germany during World War II.

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