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| Einstein's official portrait after receiving the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics |
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most overestimated figure in the entire scientific history, and perhaps also the most accomplished. His exploits in the field of the sciences resoundingly impacted academia and also human civilization in various ways.
He came to the notice of the academic world with the publication of four groundbreaking academic papers
in the year 1905 called the miraculous year ( Einstein's Annus Mirabilis). Many who know the famed scientist do not also know that his ideas helped in shaping technology during his time, but most especially in the 21st century. Today Einstein's immortal ideas can be seen in various tech. pieces that serve numerous indispensable purposes in our daily lives. And certainly, the near future will see more of the genius' ideas put into practical uses that will favor mankind's earthly existence.
4. The photoelectric Effect
The above-mentioned phenomenon involves the emissions of electrons from metals when illuminated by light. It had been long observed by many physicists before Einstein, but none could satisfactorily explain its mysterious workings nor reconcile it with Maxwell's wave theory of light.
Albert Einstein had discovered the photon. He theorized that as light hits an object there is an emission of electrons. With these, he demystified the phenomenon, in one of his published research papers.
The photoelectric effect is the basis for the working of such inventions as the solar cell, silicon image sensors, electroscopes, photoelectron spectroscopy, and other related tech pieces. Einstein's deeper explanation of it has aided advances in different tech. fields especially in the production of more efficient solar cells, which today serve as an important alternative power source.
3. The GPS
The Global Positioning System is one of several tech. inventions that were born of Einstein's theory of relativity. It depends on the theory to function accurately due partly to the speed of satellites in space because of which the satellites send its signals are all experiencing acceleration due to gravity than the satellites in orbit.
This problem is effectively handled by the use of clocks by the satellites that are accurate to a few billionths of a second (nanoseconds). Accurate functioning of the GPS would be unachievable if relativistic effects were not taking into account.
2. Laser
Einstein's paper on stimulated emission led to the invention of the laser. The laser itself has become an indispensable aspect of various tech. inventions in our time.
Einstein had guessed that photons like to march in step so that the presence of a bunch of them going in the same direction will increase the probability of another photon being emulated by a high energy atom. This theory forms the basis of the laser's working principle.
1. Stock Market Forecast
Wall Street trading firms depend upon the services of an army of mathematicians to help analyze the ebb and flow of stock prices, with the most sophisticated tools at hand. If a successful prediction about the way the prices will jump can be made by the mathematicians, then their hirers stand staggering chances of bringing in billions.
Some of the complex mathematics behind the stock market analysis is the original ideas of Einstein, namely his discoveries about Brownian motion published in his 1905 paper.
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