"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning" (Albert Einstein). This is a virtue that Albert Einstein lived by. Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 and died April 18, 1955 at age 76. During his lifetime, he experienced both World Wars. Because he was Jewish, he experienced the full force of World War II, moving from his childhood home of Germany to the United States shortly before the war. Despite the hardships he suffered and the obstacles he had to overcome, Albert Einstein managed to become one of the the United States' greatest physicists. Albert Einstein, a hero because of his many scientific achievements, demonstrated his heroism through the qualities: selflessness, determination, and intelligence.
Albert Einstein exemplified selflessness, for he provided the world many scientific discoveries, asking for nothing in return. This excerpt from the article "Albert Einstein," by Bryan Aubrey shows this: "After the war, he remained tirelessly devoted to the cause of world peace, and proposed a world government in which all countries were to agree to forfeit part of their national sovereignty" (Aubrey). After a long, difficult war, Einstein started work creating a world government to ensure peace and prosperity for the world's many countries, and his purpose was general welfare, not personal gain. He selflessly helped people during the war, and after the war was no exception. Another selflessness example is provided from the Nobel Prize official website's article, "Albert Einstein." "After World War II, Einstein was a leading figure in the World Government Movement, he was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined..." ("Albert Einstein-Biographical"). This once again provides evidence that Albert Einstein worked selflessly for the betterment of the world in general. Also, this excerpt shows us that Einstein could have become a president, but being a true hero, he declined this lifestyle. Throughout his life, Albert Einstein showed the heroic quality of selflessness and provided the world many great scientific advances.
When developing scientific projects, Albert Einstein had the heroic quality of determination and also portrayed this quality as he was growing up. Proof that Einstein was devoted to his work can be found in Bryan Aubrey's article "Albert Einstein." "First, he was so deeply convinced of nature's fundamental simplicity that he labored unsuccessfully for thirty years in an attempt to construct a unified field theory" (Aubrey). The phrase "he labored unsuccessfully for thirty years," shows that he was not daunted by the task's complexity, and that he worked diligently for thirty years even though the odds were not in his favor to complete the task. He started his work and refused to stop until he finished the theory; he was determined to finish. Another example of Einstein's determination can be found in Michio Kaku's article, "Einstein, Albert." "For the next 10 years, Einstein would be absorbed with formulating a theory of gravity in terms of the curvature of space-time" (Kaku). Once again, there is an example of Einstein's perseverance during long projects, and this specific project spanned 10 years. Albert Einstein spent 10 years working on a new, difficult scientific territory, but he never gave up. As put in the article "Albert Einstein," from the Nobel Prize official website, "Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of the problems of physics and the determination to solve them. He had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize the main stages on the way to his goal. He regarded his major achievements as mere stepping-stones for the next advance" ("Albert Einstein-Biographical"). Einstein always had a plan and followed it through. His many achievements were just leading up to his next big breakthrough, and with this mindset he was able to stay quite determined. Albert Einstein was a determined man who used that heroic trait to his advantage, enabling himself to make innumerable scientific discoveries.
Albert Einstein, one of the 20th century's most innovative people, portrayed great intelligence. Bryan Aubrey illustrates this fact: "He was the most illustrious of the hundreds of intellectuals who fled from Europe before World War II, and his presence at the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study, which marked a new period of development for American research and education, played a key role in attracting other eminent scholars" (Aubrey). The section, "the most illustrious of the hundreds of intellectuals" demonstrates that Albert Einstein was a widely respected innovative man, who attracted many other great minds to the United States. His help sparked, a new period of American research and education initiated. Einstein's intelligence was shown in the Nobel Prize official website's Albert Einstein article. "At the start of his scientific work, Einstein realized the inadequacies of Newtonian mechanics and his special theory of relativity stemmed from an attempt to reconcile the laws of mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field" ("Albert Einstein-Biographical"). Albert Einstein worked with complex and difficult science throughout his physicist career, which proves his great knowledge. His many theories revolutionized the scientific field and changed the way scientists went about scientific study. Albert Einstein's intellect also provided him with the Nobel Prize: "He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics In 1921 for his work on theoretical physics, especially the photoelectric law" ("Albert Einstein"). He had such great knowledge that he won an award for it and his work in the scientific field. Albert Einstein had the important trait of intelligence.
Albert Einstein was a hero with the great traits of selflessness, determination, and intelligence all of which helped him make many important discoveries in science. Einstein selflessly helped people during World War II and spent years developing important theories, asking for nothing in return. After the war, he did work for the greater good. All of this work that Albert Einstein did, required quite some determination, and he had plenty of it. Thirty years of his life was devoted to attempt to create a unified field theory, and for most of that time he was unsuccessful. There is no doubt in Einstein's great intellect, for he is one of the world's most well known scientists, and his work in respected and known by all. Everybody knows the famous theory E=mc2, which was created by Albert Einstein. This hero is a hero due to his many great achievements in the scientific field, he never gave up and could mentally solve most problems thrown his way. Works Cited "Albert Einstein - Biographical". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2013. Web. 9 Dec 2013. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html> "Albert Einstein." Hutchinson's Biography Database (2011): 1. Biography Reference Center. Web. 9 Dec. 2013. Aubrey, Bryan, and Aubrey Bryan. "Albert Einstein." Great Lives From History: The Twentieth Century (2008): 1. Biography Reference Center. Web. 9 Dec. 2013. Michio, Kaku. "Einstein, Albert." Britannica Biographies (2012): 1. Biography Reference Center. Web. 9 Dec. 2013.
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