Men who changed the world, part 6: gravitation revisited
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Lynn Poole briefly summarizes the highlights of Albert Einstein's life (1879-1955) with accompanying photos. Actors representing German physicist Max Planck, British scientist Sir Oliver Lodge, and Royal Society member Joseph J. Thompson comment on the progress of Einstein's work. Setting the foundation, Newton discovered the Corpuscular Theory of Light, Huygens the Wave Theory of Light, Maxwell and Hertz the Electromagnetic Theory, and Michelson and Morley the experiment using the interferometer to measure the speed of earth through "ether." From this evolved Einstein's 1905 "Special Theory of Relativity" (E=MC2) proving that all motion is relative and that light travels at a constant speed. Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect; contributed to the theory of Brownian movement, the molecular construction of matter; and conducted research in unified field theory.