Why is Einstein a great scientist?

Einstein was a great scientist because of his achievements, but those achievements wouldn't been that he hadn't his incredible imagination, persistence and intelligence, that is credited to its "different" brain.

Albert Einstein was once asked what the difference was between him and the average person. He said that if you asked the average person to find a needle in the haystack, the person would stop when he or she found a needle. He, on the other hand, would tear through the entire haystack looking for all the possible needles.

The brain of physicist Albert Einstein has been a subject of much research and speculation. It was removed within seven and a half hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or irregularities in the brain have been used to support various ideas about correlations in neuroanatomy with general or mathematical intelligence. Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of glial cells in Einstein's brain (Glial cells cushion and provide nutrients to the much busier neurons, the brain cells that communicate with each other. In some ways, though, glial cells are like the housekeeping service for the neurons. As neurons communicate, they leave behind trash in the form of potassium ions. The potassium ions pile up outside the neurons, but that trash pile can only go so high before the neurons stop communicating, because there's just no more room for the potassium ion discharge. Glial cells clean up those potassium ions to allow the neurons to fire repeatedly. Glia also soak up other neurotransmitters that might clog the communication lines of the neurons).

A study, "The cerebral cortex of Albert Einstein: a description and preliminary analysis of unpublished photographs", was published on November 16, 2012, in the journal Brain. Dean Falk, an evolutionary anthropologist at Florida State University, led the study - which analysed 14 recently discovered photographs - and described the brain: "Although the overall size and asymmetrical shape of Einstein's brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary."

Atomic bomb is proof of his special theory of relativity--

He did not participate directly in the invention of the atomic bomb-but was instrumental in facilitating its development. His Special Theory of Relativity emphasized that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb clearly illustrates this principle.

Einstein really was NOT a "great scientist". In fact, he had very little "hands on" with scientific experiments.

Einstein was a Theoretical Physicist. He came up with IDEAS (like the Theory of Relativity) but left it to OTHER people to prove his Theories. Remember, a Theory IS NOT A FACT, but is really just an intelligent guess, a statement of how things OUGHT to work, based on observations.

There is NOTHING from Einstein's theories that have been proven wrong, or what you might call a "failure", but much of his work remains UNPROVEN -- meaning that it might be true, it might be false, but no body has proven it either way. But for now, his theories work. he has had no outright failures.

Of course, theories often don't have detail/. Details are another thing that Einstein was short of. Again, a lot of "This ought to be this way", but not a lot of "this is how it is truly is.". The PRACTICAL side of his physics is left to other people.

What may be Einstein's greatest value is is INSIGHT, or what might be called "intuition". It is clear that Einstein saw the world in a completely different way than other people, and this way allowed him to see implications in data that other people miss. His abilities as a TEACHER also give him an advantage, as Einstein was also rather good at explaining that which his intuition perceived.

People who claim Einstein was wrong, or those that try to shoot down his theories are merely jealous of his superior abilities to "think things through" without the benefit of actual scientific measurement and experimentation. But Einstein himself would have gladly accepted and listened to those people, because through their practical experimentation new facts might be exposed which would have allowed him to fine-tune his theories to the point that they become self-evident facts.

Einstein as we know is regarded as one of the most genius men of this century. In fact, I have read as somebody saying that, "Einstein is the greatest Jew since Jesus". But if you ask me, my personal opinion is that Einstein is the undisputed greatest ever genius as well as greatest ever human being whom mankind has ever seen.

Einstein's contribution to physics is immense and I shall with no hesitation call him the Father of True Physics. When I say True Physics I mean the set of perfect laws which the universe actually follows. Earlier laws of physics like those of Newton's were mere approximations of these perfect laws.

He made his contributions in the development of the two greatest theories of the 20th century physics i.e. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. While the theory of relativity was almost completely developed by him, he laid the foundations of the Quantum Mechanics along with the works of Planck. (for a detailed view on how Einstein was more responsible for the birth of quantum mechanics than Max Planck, check out the following article Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary by Helge Kragh) His theory about the photo-electric effect (for which he also got a Nobel Prize), gave a new life to Planck's Quanta.

He was the first physicist to dream about a Grand Unified Theory (GUT). He spent the entire last days of his life in search of a GUT. Of course, he didn't succeed in that for the simple reason that he was already very much ahead of his times in terms of reasoning power and imagination.

I can say with a 100% confidence that, if Einstein was around today, with the large amount of experimental data and the sophisticated apparatus available today, he would have discovered the Grand Unified Theory in less than a year's time!

He is the fist person to teach the world that the nature is not the way it looks ..

he explored the beauty of nature to a great extent in his relativity ...

and it all started with a simple question " what happens if i travel at the speed of light"

he is considered the greatest because normally the scientists do a sort of mechanical connecting sort of thing but he bought out the concepts of time travel ,4d space and all that and stood by it ... he had the gutts to challenge the whole of the Scientific World. ...and if einstein was not there in the past then your mobile phones will be a piece of crap...

Relativity was only one of the many things that Einstein studied, he did work on a number of important things that we use every day. And relativity works pretty well, I would hardly call it a failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein

Look at the list of things under "Scientific Career". Not only was he prolific, but his work was spread over a wide range of disciplines.

He was great because he did important work, work that had direct impact on the world, both in his time and the future. The photoelectric effect (which he won a Nobel Prize for) was one of the most important concepts of its time, it helped open up a world of physics in other areas.

All were stealers and greedy for publicity and were controlled by Jews media of that time.I have the real answer Man!.. See these formulas can be originally discovered by whom who actually worked on the basics of mathematics and physics and who is the orginator and first who stepped into cosmos. See when you try to find a topic on internet and read it on some blog then you will notice that all blogs are actualy copting something and pasting on thier own blog post. but the credit should go to the first and the one who never thought of publicity......so let me reveal the answer to you , may be , it won't fit you but the truth is truth...ok guess it now....who invented Number System?? who invented algebra?? who invented the greatest constants PIE?? My friend if you dig down any topic and the final destination will certainly Ancient Bharat (India). whether you talk about meditaion (great way to feel the cosmos), Mahabhart stories (where the text mentioned about space travel and the time relativity which recently again copied in movie Intersteller ) or any real first basic inventions like email system( invented by inidian), first Chip (without one no computer can stand invented by indian)., (first university of world, nalanda university), first religion( no one can trace when it was founded),..here what i want to say that whenevr you want to go to the first you will definlety notice India. Hence my answer is this and many famous theories and formulas are stolen and copied from ancient Indian Texts.

Einstein`s a great scientist because he is the founder of atomic age Theory of relativity.This makes him the Greatest!

He wasn't a greater scientist than many other scientists. He found himself in a time where there was enough data around to prove a theory presented by others back when there was no proof of their concepts. He used the data and their research and presented it as his own theory.

Successes:

- photoelectric effect

- brownian motion

- relativity

- the beginning of quantum mechanics

- scientist lobbying for nuclear weapons (until he saw the devastation)

- scientist lobbying for not using nuclear weapons

Failures:

- first marriage

- added a value of cosmological constant that fit popular belief (his greatest blunder)

- did not always dress like a professional

- could not reconcile quantum mechanics and relativity (that is OK, it cannot be done, since they ignore one another)

- had to up and die

well he wasn't just great scientist but the last genius on earth so far that I have read about, his E= mc2 has not been proved or disproved yet, so cant we draw a conclusion from this that he was brilliant enough to think in the way so that he can make the coming generations to think, think and think that from where the hell he got the ideas like that which we cant prove or disprove till date, What say? now is your turn to think. all the best.