Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for Nine Years
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:09 Einstein fails to get into college
1:40 Einstein’s grades at Zurich Polytechnic
2:02 Einstein irritates his university professors
2:51 Meeting Mileva Maric and illegitimate daughter Lieserl
4:40 Einstein fails to get a job
6:34 Working as a third-rate patent clerk
8:18 The ‘miracle’ year in 1905 starting with the photoelectric effect paper
9:10 Brownian Motion
9:40 Special theory of relativity
10:55 E = MC2
11:26 Einstein still struggles to get a job following 1905 papers
12:52 Falling in love with his Berlin cousin
13:09 Einstein and wife divorce
13:57 General theory of relativity
15:22 How the sun warps starlight
16:02 Einstein’s controversial character
17:21 Dropping the atomic bomb
18:25 Einstein troubled by quantum entanglement
19:05 Struggle to find a uniform field theory
Special thanks to Soojin Han for permission to feature her performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3
Full video of the performance • Mozart Violin Concerto...
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Swiss Patent Office in Bern Gidoca, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Italian cemetery where Hermann Einstein is buried: Paolobon140, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, Netherlands showcasing Einstein’s fountain pen Museum Boerhaave, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
NASA’s animation of how the sun warps starlight
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Nikola Tesla, I'm not sure if it's been covered already, im pretty new to the channel
Please make a video about John von Neumann. He was one of the smartest scientists of the 20th century in terms of raw intelligence. He was a polymath with a photographic memory who, at six years old, could divide two eight-digit numbers in his head and converse in Ancient Greek.
Geniuses of his era called him a genius. For example, George Dantzig, who accidentally solved two famous unsolved problems in statistics because he was late to class and thought they were homework. The story of von Neumann's genius goes like this:
When George Dantzig brought von Neumann an unsolved problem in linear programming "as I would to an ordinary mortal", on which there had been no published literature, he was astonished when von Neumann said "Oh, that!", before offhandedly giving a lecture of over an hour, explaining how to solve the problem using the hitherto unconceived theory of duality.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, the iconic 1897 tale of a vampire from Transylvania, is often thought to be inspired by a formidable 15th-century governor from present-day Romania named Vlad the Impaler.= VLAD TzEPES fighting Ottoman Empire.
robert boyle or humphry davy
a lesson to every professor, the best and brightest, the most inquisitive and curious, are not necessarily the A students.
Grades are only a snapshot, peoples understanding and thought process can evolve overtime, a lot of people let the grades stop them from pursuing it without realizing they have potential.
Note: May not apply if the teachers, professors are open-minded, inquisitive and curious themselves.
tbh, I think its more of a mistake on Einstein part than professors rejecting him. you're saying this from hindsight bias
how come they could see if they dont have the eye for it?
So the woke schools changing the grading standard were on the correct side of educational history?
I Don't know why I am obsessed with Einstein but I loved him so much since I first heard about him
He will always be in my mind for making me love physics.....
Atleast the eyes in pagan era of that time can't be used anymore
If your happy and you know it clap your hands! 😂
Same , He lead me to my hypotheses on the Multi Multiverse.
@@ossiedunstan4419 multiverse is dogma and pseudo science....
The "greatest scientist of all time" was a complete fraud. Please start using your brain.
Same! 😂
Don’t dismiss Mileva Maric’s contribution to Einstein’s work so easily. She did much more than type up his papers! The very fact she was the only woman classmate showed the extent to which she was valued in her own right. After marriage they had at least two more children but she suffered from severe post partum depression. I disagree that Mileva was ugly. After Einstein grew tired of her illness he left and married his first cousin. I would never call his cousin ugly, but her picture is readily available.
Yeah, Einstein's cousin-wife was actually quite an ugly hag compared to Mileva Maric. He should have stayed loyal to Mileva. Probably would have come up with a grand unified theory then. Also shouldn't have told the US of A to build a nuke.
I'm gonna build a time machine and tell him about it.
A😮
He stole her ideas !
@@shantishanti1949 yeah just like marie curie stole from her husband.
Yeah the Disney series was very eye opening and quite saddening.
One of your best documentaries yet. Longer, more in-depth=better.
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger🎶
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Beautifully done. Thank you.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
This is probably the best description of success. "He did his most important work and nobody cared at all"
It isn't till later when the implications of the success show up does the impact of the stone hitting the water send out the waves...
Because he was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
Incredible and inspiring thank you, was just feeling like shit this morning, and this picked me right back up.
Fascination video! I really loved it!! BTW, your videos are amazing!! I really liked most of the videos and it really gives valuable learning!!
What a lovely and well made video! One of the best I have seen on Albert Einstein, and a LOT of documentaries were made on his life and his legacy.
Little known fact. After he published the Special Relativity papers, he applied for a job in the Balkans in the Kingdom of Serbia as a university professor in Belgrade. But he was rejected because of the language barrier and not speaking Serbian.
Lucky Einstein
@@FPSIreland2such an unnecessary comment
Can't find any reference of it, also doesn't sound too credible given Serbia close ties to Germany at the time and Germany's general prestige in physics I doubt it would be much different than teaching physics in English nowadays!
It is a question for the collective West because it is about ignoring. Fortunately, Einstein's archives are still mostly located in the East, in Israel. In his early stage he was on good terms with the Serbian community through his first wife. You probably never heard that he got the idea for Str during a visit to Serbia and the Balkans. You should keep in mind that the United States met him for the first time only after his emigration and when he gained media attention from the national media there. The relations between Serbia and Germany at the beginning of the 20th century were better than the relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.
@@petarswift5089 yeah that's why I question your assertion that the language barrier was the reason he didn't teach in Serbia, which you didn't address weirdly!
Thank you for a fantastic presentation;
Loved the infographics and photographs which were very apt to the topic.
Please keep them coming!!
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
I'm really curious what he said at last, the nurse didn't know german, it will probably remain a mystery forever
It was some sort of equation, but the nurse was not a mathematician.
Probably?
So he's not cared enough at the end? Probably they should have had a recorder near him all the time.
@@centuraxaum5951 should've would've could've
Perhaps he did unlock the secret to the theory of everything and told it to the nurse, who, like the world, was not ready for it. We may never know.
You are brilliant at what you do. Top notch.
This is really well presented and narrated.
Totally agree.One tiny critique.The narrator should look into voice lesson.Her voice is naturally beautiful though.
Really? He was a “pacifist” but he was totally behind Israel…
@@ronmullick253 the voice is AI generated 😁
@@uzefulvideos3440 That does make sense.Maybe it is the disinterested quality in her voice.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
This is a marvelous presentation of science, history, and Einstein. I love your presentation style and narration! I wish i can be tour assistant to learn how to create this kind of educational videos. Where does one learn about these processes of clipping vidros, photos, and stringing them into a story with voice recordings?
A wonderful video production, thanks. Subscribed.
Great video and great explanations.
Very nice video, as always
Nice how this intimate emotional climax in the end is immediately soulcrushingly devastated by an add for brilliant. Now I am depressed again.
Thank you! Very interesting!🌱
Great summation of Einstein's life and work.
Ngl I wish your channel had more subscribers because your videos are so insightful and interesting 😭
Love these scientist docuseries
Loved this documentary!
Hi Cindy, I love your videos and I'm wondering if you can make a bio video on mathematicians like Abel, Euclid,Euler or Gauss
I like that you put ad at the end of the video. I watched to reciprocate that respect
I love your channel
I love the historical origins and significance of science
You unfold it beautifully
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 Ah the internet.Where people can puff themselves up by calling a genius a fruad.And then present a sophomoric,useless and pathetic video to prove their lack of intellect.
Thank you for this
I like your voice😊 it's clear and calm.
The elevator animation is wrong. It shows the elevator moving with constant speed after a brief initial acceleration-that is, a real-life elevator. Whereas Einstein-clearly not an engineer-imagined elevators that were constantly accelerating, whether moving upward or downward. He wouldn't have discovered General Relativity in a real-life elevator.
A proud Indian engineer 😂
Elevators cannot constantly accelerate downwards.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons Real-life elevators don't, naturally. There's air, and eventually, the ground itself. An ideal elevator for Einstein would be a nightmare in the real world. 🤣
@@i2keepitrealInreseach LMFAO, Ya right, he really is proud of that stupid shit he just said LOL. Made my day.
@@gary_rumain_you_peons "Elevators cannot constantly accelerate downwards." -- they can, when the breaks go bad 😂
Well done.
A very good short 'Bio' of Einstein!
Thanks a lot.
From someone who was a very happy 'Patent Clerk' for 16y.
A testament to the complexity of the human mind, and the ridiculousness of the modern educational system.
Have 😢 been searching for this video ,since a year .
nice presentation.
How many genuiuses go unnoticed & how many go waste due to politics or inter personal issues or even plain discrimination
How many charlatans get praised by the media as demi-gods. Looking at you Elon!
Would you rather score a 50 on every test, or a 100 on half, and a 0 on half?
Autism sucks...
How many charlatans are being praised by the media? Looking at you Elon!
@@growtocycle6992 ???
I've heard of several different explanations of Einstein's Theory of Relativity since a very long time now without ever understanding it at all. Today, I heard you make a key comment in your explanation of the Einstein's free fall and accelerating upward elevator scenario that both gravity and acceleration are one and the same thing. Though I've known this concept for a long time now ever since having studied about it in high school, the fact that this leads to the explanation of Einstein's theory of Relativity is a revelation for me in its own. Now all that remains is to learn the math used for describing acceleration in curved geometric spaces and then I should be able to understand the theory that has evaded my comprehension for 25 years already now.
Thank you very much for providing this insight.
I recommend Prof. Frederic Schuller's lecture series for the Heraeus Winter school on gravity and light. It's here on UA-cam. Best, most understandable introduction to GR that I've seen. The professor won some award for his teaching skill.
@@epajarjestys9981 the best way to learn is by reading the original papers of Einstein since they are very detailed and he was an amazing writer.
Super presentation. And no glaring errors, while explaining simply for the public.
While there was clearly a few errors that would set a scientist back she done good enough for me to prefer over any news media outlet. 😂 🎉
@@andrewlewis4047 Which errors most noteworthy? I am a physicist: did I enthusiastically forget to critique?🤓
His resilience in the face of educational and professional setbacks is a powerful lesson on the importance of persistence and staying true to one's intellectual passions. 🔑
I love you’re videos, i really love these things but i couldn’t find any good explanation about it. But you do it just perfectly that even a 10 year old can understand😊
this was great!
Loved this piece on Einstein. 🙏
Thank you.
Oh, wonderful history; it provides lessons in many eye-opening facets of psychology, life, and dreams. Thank you!!
His story could've ended many many times. I'm glad einstein was so mentally durable.
Thank you
Sweet moments in time, Thank you, you have a special gift, details, your got all details. This video is the best..Thank you,
Always in space and time.
Great video on Einstein.
Video editing best ❤🎉
I love anything and everything about Sir Einstein.
When Einstein's fiance complained about his not being ready to marry he developed his Theory of Relative Stability.
In 1925 Einstein visited Buenos Aires, in Montevideo he met with philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira. He read Upton Sinclair novels. Surprising that he had so many extracurricular activities.
At the bottom of my life yet again,
it's good to listen to something pure and positive.
What is amazing to me is the help in math he got from his first wife who had a PHD in mathmatics. According to you and everyone else she never existed. She has been written off by history. So take this video and stick it where the sun doesn't shine.
Please make a video on Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose as he was father of Quantum Statistics.
Thanks
Thanks so much Maurice, this is really appreciated!
Anyone connecting Terrence Howard, magnetism, relativity ?
Excellent bio!
One lengthy paper I read about him detailed how he and the people around him successfully use publicity and what you might call a bit of ShowBusiness to make him so famous compared to other more important physicists. His mathematics was rather poor and he could not get a job on the Manhattan project. But he had made himself very famous so when teller and Szilard put together the letter to Roosevelt about nuclear energy they got Einstein to sign it because of his name.
His family still promotes all of this quite jealously.
Yup... that is the truth
Well, the Einstein-Szilard letter from August 1939 didn't cause much action in the US. The immediate consequences were a relatively small research program. In fact, it was the Frisch-Peierls memorandum from March 1940 (which in historical review already contained the schematic of a blueprint for the gun-type design of the atomic bomb) which led to the activity of the MAUD committee and the Tube Alloys project in the UK later on, way before the start of the Manhattan project. And it was Mark Oliphant (a guy from Australia, who was a member of the MAUD committee and who then primarily worked on the new RADAR technology, and who finally got lucky to have Rudolf Peierls sitting nearby in the same building (who could solve one or two difficult problems for Oliphant - despite the fact that Peierls and Frisch didn't posses security clearance at that time ;-)) visiting the US in August 1941 who reminded the scientific community in the US about the existence of the MAUD committee report. That report had been sent to the US before, but Lyman Briggs (director of the US Uranium Committee) had put that report into his safe. And had not shown it to any member of his own committee. There was meeting then on 26th of August 194 with Mark Oliphant and the Uranium Committee to discuss the issue. Finally, Oliphant met with his friend Ernest Lawrence on September 23th in Berkeley, where Lawrence did receive a copy of the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. And Lawrence then informed Robert Oppenheimer to check the figures. But this it not the end of the story. Mark Oliphant convinced Ernest Lawrence to convert his 37-inch cyclotron into a giant mass spectrometer for electromagnetic isotope separation. So, in the end, it was some guy from Australia and not the the (first) Einstein-Szilard letter who caused the action. IMHO, that famous Einstein-Szilard letter gets a little bit too much attention. Probably because of the name of Albert Einstein in it. ;-)
I need a similar job to solve the P-NP problem!
AI will do it
its nice knowing Einstein struggled getting a job/getting his foot on the door, too 😔
Albert einstein had OCD. As do many scientists and entertainers to this day. Can you imagine if he were born in our time? And they were shoving drugs down his throat to help with his OCD! My youngest son, who is a man now, was borderline OCD when he was in grade and high school. All they did was try to convince me to get him Adderall. I wasn't going for any of that, especially when two Psychiatrist told me told me it wasn't necessary. They wanted me to give him drugs to make their job easier. Not everyone learns at the same pace.
You have no idea what OCD is or what OCD drugs do.
Let me guess. Also a anti vacciner?
@@AL-lh2ht the avg anti vacciner knows more about chemistry and drugs than probably the vacciners...
@@AL-lh2ht You've obviously had too many with an attendant charisma bypass.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
At 1:22 Aarau is a mid-sized town, capital of the canton of Aargau, not a village
What AI models and agent setup are you using?
ok but what about his mewing streak
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
14:17 I am not sure what it means to "feel your own weight"? Does this mean that your legs will "feel" that they are "working" more to hold you up? I guess I am curious as to which part/muscles of your body, coupled to which part of your sensory system/CNS, is involved?
Some say it is hard to find job today )
100 years ago it took 9 years and 4 revolutionary publications to get position according to your degree
We are all given talent
..but time only decides when the time comes...❤
'Space and Time are products of our thinking not a situation within which we live'
So all his greatest works were in that patent office while married to whats her name who he met in college AND gave his prize money to. I wonder how much "editing" she did?
It maybe her work.
For all students, who fail.
The initial formula was m = E/(c^2). The first attempt to explain mass.
Great dude, able to imagine some insane thought experiments. He was also lucky: when his math was wrong the measurements weren't made (remember 1914 in Russia and WW1?) and when he desperately needed to right his math Hilbert was a gentleman. And if I'm not wrong he didn't deliver much in his last 40 years ...
lorentz came up wtih E= MC2, albert understood it.
god he's so relatable
Interesting, thank you. Also, I am curious: Did you discover anything about how Hermann Minkowski treated Einstein before Einstein became famous?
Damn. Einstein was basically a loser until he wasn't in 1905 when he suddenly became a legend.
He was still a loser in 1905, and 1906. It wasn't until 1907 when Planck discovered Einstein that Einstein began to gain awareness. Plank was interested in his Brownian motion and Photoelectric papers. He told Einstein that he should pursue his (potentially silly) relativity work as Plank wanted monopoly on the quantum.
Even Einstein's own professor Minkowski had not bothered to read his works until Planck elevated Einstein.
In this way Einstein was a father of quantum.
Over rated... and his wife probably did all the work.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@Zamicol He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
We are very lucky to have this genius came into our world imagine if we never had him
the only real application of his theories is the nuclear BOMB,,,,,,the famous E=MC2,,,,another one is,,,the correction of clocks needed for fast and far satellites ,due to THE GENERAL RELATIVITY ,,this at 1 sec for a 100 YEARS,LOLL,the rest is only triyng to explain what is going on in the UNIVERSE,,
Einstein actually thought of a person falling from a building…that was the happiest thought of his life.
The world is grateful that Einstein’s parents didn’t name him Frank .
Damn 😂😂😂
It should be noted, Einstein was fundamental in creating and, by his skepticism, shaping Quantum Mechanics. Plus he also used a statistical approach, just that he felt the future would find a more precise method, which has been fundamentally disabused as a notion. (IOW, his hope was a wrong gut feeling). Yet his contributions still rock quantum physics today, ie his proposed thought experiment proving causality or not. He felt it would prove causality, and it ultimately proved the opposite, a proof that HE provided the original concept as part author.
I believe there is somewhat an error in the "Einstein's Nine-Year Struggle to Find a Job" video.
In 1905 Einstein published four, not five papers. The video says that there were two concerning molecules. (Wikipedia agrees with the "four" papers.) There was one paper covering molecules/atoms/Brownian motion and his doctoral thesis, which isn't always considered "a paper" and also had a significant error. It was also his second attempt, his first being in 1901, so it wasn't necessarily novel.
His 1905 doctoral thesis is usually not included because there was an error in his calculations that was later corrected after experimentation showed that his value was likely incorrect. Years later a student provided a fix. It was also likely a revision and extension of his 1901 work.
Einstein had another doctoral thesis in 1901 which was rejected/withdrawn, also concerning the kinetic theory of gasses, but that paper is lost to history.
Imagine the training of the mind that would come with having to deeply evaluate all of the various incoming applications for "copyright" type protection----- and that was one of einsteins's jobs. There is a world extending function of just reading the outside of envelopes that come from everywhere in the post office.
I did indexing of widely varied specialized research papers they're requiring me to know something about the content in order to index them. That was terrific exposure to many different deeply researched ideas.
16:12 - "But like all humans, Einstein could be full of contradictions..." goes on to explain how Einstein showed the typical thought patterns of an Early Lifer.
So he did find the field equation at this death bed, but the nurse didnt understood german 😮
biographies of 'Al Kuarizmi' who invented algebra(modern math)
Algebra comes from India, u thieve
He wasn’t just a patent clerk. He had his PhD.
a PhD patent clerk. is that better lol its the same thing
@@saraluvsyuo A patent clerk is a job. A PhD is an education level. Not the same things.
@@karagi101 sure... but what does him having a PhD change about his occupation? the video is being factual
@@saraluvsyuo They at first made it sound like it was implausible that a lowly patent clerk would come up with revolutionary discoveries. Why do they always emphasize his job?
@@karagi101 it is kinda true to an extent... he couldnt land a prestigious job even with his education so its just to emphasize how ordinary he appeared.
Special relativity can describe acceleration. You just take the second derivative w.r.t. to the time in the inertial frame.
It might be apocryphal, but I heard a story that later in life Einstein thanked the Swiss patent office for not giving him enough work to do so he had time to pursue his own ideas.
Al got great PR. He wasn't a "pacifist"; he was lazy and selfish, as demonstrated by his treatment of his wife. National service could easily be served as a cook or a clerk but there was no money in it. His arrogant treatment of Georges Le Maitres and his "Big Bang Theory" makes Einstein's understanding of cosmology a joke, The American press loved him. He was a one trick pony.
Off topic but curious as to where the narrator grew up as I have never heard the word "pollen" pronounced this way before - at about 9:30 in the video regarding Brownian motion
Almost like she's saying Poland. But the way she pronounces water suggests that she's an American (East coast but not North-East).
This is a wonderfully rich biographical video about Einstein that tells the stories behind his stellar achievements that were replete with more than his fair share of personal travails. I found it interesting and motivational that Einstien often found himself in a dead end in pursuit of a theory, and that he found solace and renewed purpose in the simple act of playing Mozart melodies on his violin. What we see is an imperfect man attempting to make sense of an imperfect world but with an abiding faith that there is a hidden order to everything. One thing I'd like to point out is Einstein, himself, did not write the letter to Roossevelt, Leo Szilard wrote the letter with the foresight that Einstein's signature at the bottom ensured it would get Roosevelt's attention. After some armtwisting Einstein finally agreed, and Edward Teller brought the letter to Einstein to sign changing the coarse of history in an incredibly profound way.
Shia LaBeouf should play Einstein in a biopic.
Physicists in his time (and still now) weren’t interested in how the universe worked, they were primarily interested in WHO is saying this is correct.
Without Max Planck vouching for Einstein, Einstein would not have ever got a decent job or be known.
Make a documentary on David hilbert!
At Lake Eola I went to the back of my eyes and Einstein appeared I heard what was around GOD when form. Time and space go on for ever.
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