ENGL 4890 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Annalen Der Physik, Chaim Weizmann, Brownian Motion
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Albert einstein . (ulm 1879 - pricenton 1955). He studied at the federal polytechnic school of. In 1901 he obtained swiss citizenship and taught in. Whinthertur and schffhausen; in 1902 he held the position of technical assistant in the swiss office of patents, in bern, and in 1905 he received his doctorate from the university of. In 1908 he was appointed privatdozent at the univ. Of bern, and in 1909 prof. extraordinary in the one of zurich, position that left in 1911 to move to prague, in whose univ. alemana had been designated professor of theoretical physics. Zurich as prof. de of the polytechnic school, and in 1914 he moved to berlin, city in which he remained until 1933 as prof. extraordinary of the university and director of the institute of. In 1933 hitler"s rise to power forced him to leave germany, and moved to the united states, whose citizenship he adopted in 1940.
