Talk:Albert Einstein

Add Death section

Proposal to add section about his death, as is normally done for those who are deceased. Should include the cause, aprox time/date, location and maybe Where body is interred. Aarondevo (talk) 13:51, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

See Albert Einstein#Death - DVdm (talk) 14:09, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

The story of the magnet

Please add the following information to the article. Once a relative gave a magnet to Einstein. He played continuously with it and wondered at the ability of the magnet to draw in nails and pins from a distance without being connected to them. Somebody400 (talk) 14:54, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Presumably you mean the story of his father giving the five-year-old Einstein (possibly when he was sick in bed) a magnetic compass and that this "awakened his passion for physics", with him writing later: "That experience made a deep and lasting impression on me... Something deeper had to be hidden behind things.": [1]. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:12, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

The magnet was gifted by a relative. Somebody400 (talk) 16:03, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Then I don't know what you mean, sorry. You'll need to provide a source. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:15, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

Here is the source:http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/leph105.pdf Somebody400 (talk) 16:45, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula ... false

The article currently says, in the lead, "He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E=mc^2 which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"" I would dispute this and I looked in the cited source and it does not say this. what it does say are things like:

"His work in relativity had made him the most famous scientist in the world."... "It wasn’t actually E=mc 2 and his other work from 1905 that first made Einstein famous. If that were all he had done, his name would have become recognized within the specialized community of theoretical physicists, but probably not otherwise known to the public... Something else happened that built on E=mc 2 but went further—and ended up making him the most famous scientist in the world." And the author then goes on to talk about relativity, i.e. the fact that E=mc^2 holds true not just in an inertial frame, but also in an accelerating frame. <-- which I would propose is also not what the general public knows about him, but that is a different claim the author is making than the one in the lead.

The source of the confusion is the title of the book, "E=mc^2 A biography of the world's most famous equation" which is not making a claim about Einstein but about the equation; and "everybody knows", authors don't generally title or create the covers for their books, the publishers do based on their ideas about marketing, so citing the book as supporting this idea is doubly false. And as a quibble, E=mc^2 could still be the most famous equation without that being what Einstein is best known for (for instance, he could be and is much more famous than the equation)

(more as an aside, what I would personally propose in case it resonates with others here, he is best known for "time is the 4th dimension" or the "speed of light is a constant" or "can't go faster than the speed of light" or "grandfather paradox", or even what he should be known for, the Brownian motion paper he wrote was the first theory confirming evidence of the existence of atoms: atomic theory.) 98.7.201.234 (talk) 02:30, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 February 2020

Hi, my name is michael, i am from israel and i am learning about albert in school. I had to do a project about him in English leasson and I chose his connection to Judaism (which was not very strict but still he was part of the jewish kind). I was surprised to see that it does not say in the first line "german-jewish". i dont know how it works in "wikipedia english" but in hebrew we always write like this. Also, if the man who is the artist is Jewish, Muslim or Christian. I would like an answer and change it! thank you, Michael Weinreb, Raanana, Israel. 2A00:A040:188:9166:6C2D:1FC8:F33C:BED8 (talk) 15:16, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

 Not done Hi Michael. As you can see, the article says this: "The Einsteins were non-observant Ashkenazi Jews, and Albert attended a Catholic elementary school in Munich, from the age of 5, for three years." So just being from a Jewish family doesn't really warrant a mention of him being "Jewish" in the first line? He didn't really rate Judaism very highly, saying: "For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstition." Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:27, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Albert Einstein -- Friends

I apologize in advance if this is not the correct way to do this -- this is the first time I have ever tried to edit Wikipedia.

I just wanted to add under the Friends heading that Albert Einstein was friends with Marian Anderson -- this is documented in her Wikipedia bio. In those more racist times, no hotel in Princeton would allow Marian Anderson to stay there, so when she performed in Princeton, she always stayed with Einstein.

This is especially important because Einstein was a strong supporter of civil rights before it was fashionable (a Google search brings up a Harvard Review article that talks about this.) Although Einstein spoke many times at what we would now call HBCUs (historically Black colleges and universities) and other Black organizations and institutions, the mainline press would never cover these events because of the tenor of the times. I think it is important to have these items included in Wikipedia, which has become the primary source of information for so many people today.Rcfeinson (talk) 01:25, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 March 2020

Mention that Einstein explained the radioactivity that made the Curies famous, followed Galileo's plan to apply maths to the universe, improved on Newton's laws, developed Faraday's ideas of unification, had the patience of Mendel, was a lot nicer than Pasteur and liked the seaside as much as Aristotle. And, not only is he the most famous scientist of all, he is arguably - also - the most brilliant. RobloxCount (talk) 09:07, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

 Not done. This would be a wholly inappropriate addition. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:50, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2020

change 'Einstein's work gradually came to recognised as significant advancements.' to 'Einstein's work gradually came to be recognised as significant advancements.' 2.218.249.11 (talk) 00:55, 28 March 2020 (UTC)