OUIL406 - Studio Brief 3 - Albert Einstein

I decided on looking at Einstein because I find him to be the most interesting out of the 3 people I chose. I was thinking I would begin by looking at some of his popular theories and maybe trying to visualise them through illustration.

FACTS

• When Einstein died in 1955, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered, as was his wish. However, before his body was cremated, pathologist Thomas Harvey at Princeton Hospital conducted an autopsy in which he removed Einstein's brain. Rather than putting the brain back in the body, Harvey decided to keep it, ostensibly for study. Harvey did not have permission to keep Einstein's brain, but days later, he convinced Einstein's son that it would help science.
• A few days after Zionist leader and first President of Israel Chaim Weizmann died on November 9, 1952, Einstein was asked if he would accept the position of being the second president of Israel. Einstein, age 73, declined the offer.
• Part of Einstein's charm was his disheveled look. In addition to his uncombed hair, one of Einstein's peculiar habits was to never wear socks. Whether it was while out sailing or to a formal dinner at the White House, Einstein went without socks everywhere.
• When Albert Einstein was five years old and sick in bed, his father showed him a simple pocket compass. Einstein was mesmerized. What force exerted itself on the little needle to make it point in a single direction? This question haunted Einstein for many years and has been noted as the beginning of his fascination with science.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/legacy-of-the-big-bang-a-century-after-albert-einsteins-predictions-scientists-discover-gravitational-waves-in-one-of-the-most-important-goals-in-cosmology-9197739.html

Some of the articles I read on Einstein, to better understand some of his theories

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/17/gravitational-waves-bicep-inflation-big-bang

Gravitational waves are ripples in the space-time continuum, which was envisaged by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/17/astronomers-discoveredechoesofbigbangexpansion.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/03/07/einsteins-lost-theory-describes-a-universe-without-a-big-bang/#.Uyg8M_l_t8U

http://guardianlv.com/2014/03/albert-einstein-debunked-the-big-bang-theory/

http://life.time.com/history/the-day-albert-einstein-died-a-photographers-story/#1

Einstein's office the day he died.

Quotes

• Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results
• The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who won't do anything about it
• A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new
• A true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination
• It's not that I'm so smart, It's that I stay with problems longer
• I have no special talent, I am only passionately curios
• When the solution is simple, God is answering
• The only source of knowledge is experience
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education
• Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.