Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 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
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Lipoid Gymnasium, Einstein’s high school in Germany: Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
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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
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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?
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
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. 🔑
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!
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! 😂
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] 🔥
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] 🔥
A testament to the complexity of the human mind, and the ridiculousness of the modern educational system.
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.
Beautifully done. Thank you.
He was a fraud. Now let's watch something that actually teaches some crucial wisdom 👉 The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥
@@VeganSemihCyprus33
Uuuuh, that was heavy! I think you must be in the wrong page here; Perhaps 'Mr. Rogers' is closer to your IQ!
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 ???
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.
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 😂
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] 🔥
You are brilliant at what you do. Top notch.
Fascination video! I really loved it!! BTW, your videos are amazing!! I really liked most of the videos and it really gives valuable learning!!
So he did find the field equation at this death bed, but the nurse didnt understood german 😮
Incredible and inspiring thank you, was just feeling like shit this morning, and this picked me right back up.
Same here... Years without getting things done as dreamt!
Reminding me that Einstein himself had to struggle that hard And in an almost humilliating way Made me Feel Refreshing Energy!
Thank You, Thank You Very Much!
Love these scientist docuseries
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] 🔥
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.
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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.
Ngl I wish your channel had more subscribers because your videos are so insightful and interesting 😭
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?
Thank you! Very interesting!🌱
Great summation of Einstein's life and work.
Have 😢 been searching for this video ,since a year .
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.
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.
Nice how this intimate emotional climax in the end is immediately soulcrushingly devastated by an add for brilliant. Now I am depressed again.
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 your voice😊 it's clear and calm.
People: "Why don't you get a job?"
Me: "Einstein couldn’t get a job for nine years!"
Great video and great explanations.
His story could've ended many many times. I'm glad einstein was so mentally durable.
Very nice video, as always
Loved this documentary!
Thank you for this
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.
Marvelous presentation. Superb narrator. This was the first I recall hearing of his musicianship. High marks, all around.
When Einstein's fiance complained about his not being ready to marry he developed his Theory of Relative Stability.
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 TH-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.
His First wife was the mathematical genius…..she taught him and developed the time concept during a train ride, which she shared with him…
People would love to believe that, but no.
@@mark9294why would they love to believe that if it is true? Strange. Patronizing.
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.
A wonderful video production, thanks. Subscribed.
A very good short 'Bio' of Einstein!
Thanks a lot.
From someone who was a very happy 'Patent Clerk' for 16y.
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.
What a great video, I remember studying Einstein for long hours and the dopamine spike I used to get is similar to what I got from the video.
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
Did these other mathematicians come up with such ground breaking theories? No and that's why they are forgotten. Many are good at math, few can come up with such revolutionary 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.
The world is grateful that Einstein’s parents didn’t name him Frank .
Damn 😂😂😂
Very interesting. Even with a PhD in theoretical physics since 1976 I learned a lot, and appreciate the work put into the video, and then sharing.
nice presentation.
Well done.
That describes the situation of our world when there are no free platforms for the geniuses to share their ideas and today the situation has gone much worse in contrast to what it apparently appears.
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!
Thank you.
Oh, wonderful history; it provides lessons in many eye-opening facets of psychology, life, and dreams. Thank you!!
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?🤓
Loved this piece on Einstein. 🙏
At 1:22 Aarau is a mid-sized town, capital of the canton of Aargau, not a village
I need a similar job to solve the P-NP problem!
AI will do it
Please make a video on Dr. Satyendra Nath Bose as he was father of Quantum Statistics.
Gregor Mendel wrote papers equally ground breaking on genetics hoping to secure a position as a lab tech at Charles University; he did not make it.
Thank you
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] 🔥
@@AL-lh2ht Your kidding right?
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.
At the bottom of my life yet again,
it's good to listen to something pure and positive.
The initial formula was m = E/(c^2). The first attempt to explain mass.
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 love anything and everything about Sir Einstein.
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] 🔥
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,,
lorentz came up wtih E= MC2, albert understood it.
'Space and Time are products of our thinking not a situation within which we live'
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?
What AI models and agent setup are you using?
Einstein actually thought of a person falling from a building…that was the happiest thought of his life.
Anyone connecting Terrence Howard, magnetism, relativity ?
Haven't had a job in 76 years and don't ever want one.
Video editing best ❤🎉
17:21 J. Oppenheimer on the right, I reckon. Einstein's travel diaries were discovered in 2018; I recall he noted that the Chinese were unable and/or hopeless at math.
"besides her modest looks" c'mon man
For all students, who fail.
We are all given talent
..but time only decides when the time comes...❤
Thanks
Thanks so much Maurice, this is really appreciated!
Proof that the straight path to where the future saw you going never existed.
Only lucky accidents (meeting the right teacher) plus persistence lead to those outcomes we profit from so much.
Great video on Einstein.
Interesting, thank you. Also, I am curious: Did you discover anything about how Hermann Minkowski treated Einstein before Einstein became famous?
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The same thing they saying about Terrence Howard were the same thing they were saying about Einstein.
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 ...
Those grade records list Minkowski... is that the Hermann Minkowski?!
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.
The best way to go to a new place is that
god he's so relatable
In several places in this video you can spot the foundations of most of what is wrong with this world.