Einstein's Big Idea

He was trying to light up the streets of Munich, Germany.

Math, physics, and philosophy.

The violin

Milova Marich

The Patent office in Bern Switzerland.

What would I see if I were riding on the front of a beam of light?

As an object approaches the speed of light, time slows down.

Time is relative the person moving and to the person viewing the moving person.

The Nobel Prize in Physics.

Sir Humphrey Davy

He was born to a poor blacksmith and worked for a bookbinder. He had no formal education but taught himself to read and learned on his own.

Electricity and Magnetism

The electric motor.

James Clark Maxwell

Antoine Lavoisier

The Law of the Conservation of Mass

He had his head cut off by the revolutionaries?

Émilie du Châtelet

They both showed that velocity is squared with the doubling of the distance an object travels.

Lise Meitner

Nuclear fission (to split)

She was Jewish during the rise of Hitler and Naziism. She may have joined many Jews who had perished in the gas camps if she hadn't escaped to another country.

The Atom Bomb was developed on the basis of his equation.