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Android (robot) | China | China
On April 19, 2025, 21 humanoid robots participated along with 12,000 human runners in a half-marathon in Beijing. While almost every robot fell down and had overheating problems, and the robots were continuously being controlled by human handlers accompanying them, six of the robots did reach the finish line. Tw... |
Android (robot) | Use in fiction | Use in fiction
Androids are a staple of science fiction. Isaac Asimov pioneered the fictionalization of the science of robotics and artificial intelligence, notably in his 1950s series I, Robot. One thing common to most fictional androids is that the real-life technological challenges associated with creating thorough... |
Android (robot) | See also | See also |
Android (robot) | References | References |
Android (robot) | Further reading | Further reading
Kerman, Judith B. (1991). Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. .
Perkowitz, Sidney (2004). Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids. Joseph Henry... |
Android (robot) | External links | External links
Category:Japanese inventions
Category:South Korean inventions
Category:Osaka University research
Category:Science fiction themes
Category:Human–machine interaction
Category:Robots |
Android (robot) | Table of Content | Short description, Terminology, Projects, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, United States, China, Use in fiction, See also, References, Further reading, External links |
Alberta | Short description | Alberta is a province of Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, the Northwest Territories to its north, and the U.S. state of Montana to its south. Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only two landlock... |
Alberta | Etymology | Etymology
Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848–1939), the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. Princess Louise was the wife of John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, Governor General of Canada (1878–83). Lake Louise and Mount Alberta were also named in her honour.
The name "Alberta" is a feminine La... |
Alberta | Geography | Geography
thumb|400px|A topographic map of Alberta, showing cities, towns, municipal district (county) and rural municipality borders, and natural features
Alberta, with an area of , is the fourth-largest province after Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia.
Alberta's southern border is the 49th parallel north, which... |
Alberta | Climate | Climate
thumb|300px|Köppen climate types in Alberta
Alberta extends for over from north to south; its climate, therefore, varies considerably. Average high temperatures in January range from in the southwest to in the far north. The presence of the Rocky Mountains also influences the climate to the southwest, whic... |
Alberta | Ecology | Ecology |
Alberta | Flora | Flora
thumb|The wild rose is the provincial flower of Alberta.
In central and northern Alberta the arrival of spring is marked by the early flowering of the prairie crocus (Pulsatilla nuttalliana) anemone; this member of the buttercup family has been recorded flowering as early as March, though April is the usual mon... |
Alberta | Fauna | Fauna
thumb|left|A bighorn sheep in Kananaskis Country. The bighorn sheep is the provincial mammal of Alberta.
The four climatic regions (alpine, boreal forest, parkland, and prairie) of Alberta are home to many different species of animals. The south and central prairie was the homeland of the American bison, also k... |
Alberta | Paleontology | Paleontology
thumb|upright=1.7|Specimens at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation at Dinosaur Provincial Park. Some of the specimens, from left to right, are Hypacrosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Gorgosaurus (both in the background), Tyrannosaurus, and Triceratops.
Alberta... |
Alberta | History | History
thumb|Blackfoot Confederacy warriors in Macleod in 1907
Paleo-Indians arrived in what would later be Alberta at least 10,000 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age. They are thought to have migrated from Siberia to Alaska on a land bridge across the Bering Strait and then possibly moved south along th... |
Alberta | Demographics | Demographics
thumb|upright=1.3|Population density of Alberta
The 2021 Canadian census reported Alberta had a population of 4,262,635 living in 1,633,220 of its 1,772,670 total dwellings, an 4.8% change from its 2016 population of 4,067,175. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Statistics Ca... |
Alberta | Municipalities | Municipalities
+ Largest metro areas and municipalities by population as of 2016 Census metropolitan areas: 2016 2011 2006 2001 1996 Calgary CMA1,392,609 1,214,839 1,079,310 951,395 821,628 Edmonton CMA1,321,426 1,159,869 1,034,945 937,845 862,597Lethbridge CMA117,394105,99995,19687,38882,025 Urban municipalities (1... |
Alberta | Language | Language
As of the 2021 Canadian Census, the ten most spoken languages in the province included English (4,109,720 or 98.37%), French (260,415 or 6.23%), Tagalog (172,625 or 4.13%), Punjabi (126,385 or 3.03%), Spanish (116,070 or 2.78%), Hindi (94,015 or 2.25%), Mandarin (82,095 or 1.97%), Arabic (76,760 or 1.84%), ... |
Alberta | Ethnicity | Ethnicity
Alberta has considerable ethnic diversity. In line with the rest of Canada, many Albertans are descended from immigrants of Western European nations, notably England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France, but large numbers later came from other regions of Europe, notably Germany, Ukraine and Scandinavia. Mo... |
Alberta | Religion | Religion
thumb|St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Edmonton
According to the 2021 census, religious groups in Alberta included:
Christianity (2,009,820 persons or 48.1%)
Irreligion (1,676,045 persons or 40.1%)
Islam (202,535 persons or 4.8%)
Sikhism (103,600 persons or 2.5%)
Hinduism (78,520 persons or... |
Alberta | Economy | Economy
thumb|upright=1.3|Petroleum resources in Alberta
Alberta's economy, historically weak during the early period of Confederation, experienced a postwar boom supported by the burgeoning petroleum industry and to a lesser extent, agriculture and technology. In 2013, Alberta's per capita GDP exceeded that of the ... |
Alberta | Agriculture and forestry | Agriculture and forestry
thumb|Cows in Rocky View. Nearly one-half of Canadian beef is produced here.
Agriculture has a significant position in the province's economy. The province has over three million head of cattle, and Alberta beef has a healthy worldwide market. Forty percent of all Canadian beef is produced in... |
Alberta | Industry | Industry
Alberta is the largest producer of conventional crude oil, synthetic crude, natural gas and gas products in Canada. Alberta is the world's second-largest exporter of natural gas and the fourth-largest producer. Two of the largest producers of petrochemicals in North America are in central and north-central A... |
Alberta | Tourism | Tourism
alt=|left|thumb|The Three Sisters at Bow Valley Provincial Park in Canmore
Alberta has been a tourist destination from the early days of the 20th century, with attractions including outdoor locales for skiing, hiking, and camping, shopping locales such as West Edmonton Mall, Calgary Stampede, outdoor festiva... |
Alberta | Government and politics | Government and politics
thumb|upright=1.3|alt=Locations of Alberta's specialized and rural municipalities|Distribution of Alberta's 6 specialized municipalities (red) and 74 rural municipalities, which include municipal districts (often named as counties) (orange), improvement districts (dark green) and special areas ... |
Alberta | Administrative divisions | Administrative divisions
The province is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal districts (often named as counties), improvement districts, and special areas), Métis... |
Alberta | Law enforcement | Law enforcement
thumb|left|Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in St. Albert. The RCMP provides municipal policing throughout most of Alberta.
Policing in the province of Alberta upon its creation was the responsibility of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. In 1917, due to pressures of the First World War, the Al... |
Alberta | Military | Military
Military bases in Alberta include Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Cold Lake, CFB Edmonton, CFB Suffield and CFB Wainwright. Air force units stationed at CFB Cold Lake have access to the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. CFB Edmonton is the headquarters for the 3rd Canadian Division. CFB Suffield hosts British troops a... |
Alberta | Taxation | Taxation
According to Alberta's 2009 budget, government revenue in that year came mainly from royalties on non-renewable natural resources (30.4%), personal income taxes (22.3%), corporate and other taxes (19.6%), and grants from the federal government primarily for infrastructure projects (9.8%). In 2014, Alberta re... |
Alberta | Culture | Culture
thumb|Highland dancers performing at the CSIO Spruce Meadows 'Masters' Tournament
Calgary is famous for its Stampede, dubbed "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth". The Stampede is Canada's biggest rodeo festival and features various races and competitions, such as calf roping and bull riding. In line with the... |
Alberta | Sports | Sports
+ Sports teams in Alberta Team City LeagueStadium/arenaCapacity Edmonton Oilers Edmonton National Hockey LeagueRogers Place 18 347 Calgary Flames Calgary National Hockey LeagueScotiabank Saddledome 19 289 Edmonton Elks Edmonton Canadian Football LeagueCommonwealth Stadium 60 081 Calgary Stampeders Calgary Ca... |
Alberta | Education | Education
As with any Canadian province, the Alberta Legislature has (almost) exclusive authority to make laws respecting education. Since 1905, the Legislature has used this capacity to continue the model of locally elected public and separate school boards which originated prior to 1905, as well as to create and r... |
Alberta | Elementary and secondary | Elementary and secondary
There are forty-two public school jurisdictions in Alberta, and seventeen operating separate school jurisdictions. Sixteen of the operating separate school jurisdictions have a Catholic electorate, and one (St. Albert) has a Protestant electorate. In addition, one Protestant separate school d... |
Alberta | Post-secondary | Post-secondary
thumb|The University of Alberta in 2005. The institution is the oldest, and largest university in Alberta.
Several publicly funded post-secondary institutions are governed under the province's Post-secondary Learning Act. This includes four comprehensive research universities that provides undergradua... |
Alberta | Health care | Health care
Alberta provides a publicly funded, fully integrated health system, through Alberta Health Services (AHS)—a quasi-independent agency that delivers health care on behalf of the Government of Alberta's Ministry of Health. The Alberta government provides health services for all its residents as set out by the... |
Alberta | Transportation | Transportation |
Alberta | Air | Air
alt=|thumb|Calgary International Airport, the province's largest airport by passenger traffic.
Alberta is well-connected by air, with international airports in both Calgary and Edmonton. Calgary International Airport and Edmonton International Airport are the fourth- and fifth-busiest in Canada, respectively. Calg... |
Alberta | Public transit | Public transit
Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, and Lethbridge have substantial public transit systems. In addition to buses, Calgary and Edmonton operate light rail transit (LRT) systems. Edmonton LRT, which is underground in the downtown core and on the surface outside the downtown core was the first of the... |
Alberta | Rail | Rail
thumb|A Via Rail passenger train passing by freight trains in the background, at Jasper station
There are more than of operating mainline railway in Alberta. The vast majority of this trackage is owned by the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National Railway (CN) companies, which operate freight ... |
Alberta | Road | Road
Alberta has over of highways and roads in its road network. The main north–south corridor is Highway 2, which begins south of Cardston at the Carway border crossing and is part of the CANAMEX Corridor. Beginning at the Coutts border crossing and ending at Lethbridge, Highway 4, effectively extends Interstate 15 ... |
Alberta | Friendship partners | Friendship partners
Alberta has relationships with many provinces, states, and other entities worldwide.
Gangwon-do, South Korea (1974)
Hokkaido, Japan (1980)
Heilongjiang, China (1981)
Montana, United States (1985)
Tyumen, Russia (1992)
Khanty–Mansi, Russia (1995)
Yamalo-Nenets, Russia (1997)
Jalisco, Mexic... |
Alberta | See also | See also
Index of Alberta-related articles
Outline of Alberta
Royal eponyms in Canada
Edmonton
Calgary
Banff National Park |
Alberta | Notes | Notes |
Alberta | References | References |
Alberta | Further reading | Further reading
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Alberta | External links | External links
Alberta Encyclopedia
List of streets in Alberta with maps
Category:1905 establishments in Canada
Category:Canadian Prairies
Category:Provinces and territories of Canada
Category:States and territories established in 1905 |
Alberta | Table of Content | Short description, Etymology, Geography, Climate, Ecology, Flora, Fauna, Paleontology, History, Demographics, Municipalities, Language, Ethnicity, Religion, Economy, Agriculture and forestry, Industry, Tourism, Government and politics, Administrative divisions, Law enforcement, Military, Taxation, Culture, Sports, Educ... |
List of anthropologists | Short description | Anthropologist |
List of anthropologists | A | A
John Adair
B. R. Ambedkar
Giulio Angioni
Jon Altman
Arjun Appadurai
Talal Asad
Timothy Asch
Scott Atran
Marc Augé |
List of anthropologists | B | B
Nigel Barley
Fredrik Barth
Vasily Bartold
Keith H. Basso
Daisy Bates
Gregory Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Richard Bauman
Ruth Behar
Ruth Benedict
Dorothy A. Bennett
Carl H. Berendt
Lee Berger
Brent Berlin
Catherine Helen Webb Berndt
Catherine L. Besteman
Theodore C. Bestor
Lewis Binford
Evelyn Blackwood
Wilhelm Bl... |
List of anthropologists | C | C
Julio Caro Baroja
Edmund Carpenter
Napoleon Chagnon
Pierre Clastres
Mabel Cook Cole
Malcolm Carr Collier
Harold C. Conklin
Carleton S. Coon
Frank Hamilton Cushing |
List of anthropologists | D | D
Regna Darnell
Raymond Dart
Emma Lou Davis
Wade Davis
Ernesto de Martino
Ella Cara Deloria
Raymond J. DeMallie
Philippe Descola
Stanley Diamond
Mary Douglas
Cora Du Bois
Eugene Dubois
Robin Dunbar
Ann Dunham
Katherine Dunham
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Émile Durkheim |
List of anthropologists | E | E
Mary Lindsay Elmendolf
Verrier Elwin
Matthew Engelke
Friedrich Engels
Arturo Escobar
E. E. Evans-Pritchard |
List of anthropologists | F | F
James Ferguson
Raymond Firth
Raymond D. Fogelson
Meyer Fortes
Gregory Forth
Dian Fossey
Kate Fox
Robin Fox
James Frazer
Lina Fruzzetti |
List of anthropologists | G | G
Clifford Geertz
Alfred Gell
Ernest Gellner
Herb Di Gioia
Max Gluckman
Maurice Godelier
Jane Goodall
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
Igor Gorevich
Harold A. Gould
David Graeber
Hilma Granqvist
J. Patrick Gray
Marcel Griaule
Jacob Grimm
Wilhelm Grimm |
List of anthropologists | H | H
Abdellah Hammoudi
Michael Harkin
Michael Harner
John P. Harrington
Marvin Harris
K. David Harrison
Kirsten Hastrup
Jacquetta Hawkes
Brian Douglas Hayden
Rose Oldfield Hayes
Stephen C. Headley
Thor Heyerdahl
Arthur Maurice Hocart
Ian Hodder
E. Adamson Hoebel
Earnest Hooton
Robin W.G. Horton
Aleš Hrdlička
Eva Verbitsk... |
List of anthropologists | I | I
Miyako Inoue
Bill Irons |
List of anthropologists | J | J
Ira Jacknis
John M. Janzen
Thomas Des Jean
F. Landa Jocano
Alfred E. Johnson
William Jones
Michal Josephy
Jeffrey S. Juris |
List of anthropologists | K | K
Sergei Kan
Jomo Kenyatta
David Kertzer
Alice Beck Kehoe
Anatoly Khazanov
Dolly Kikon
Richard G. Klein
Chris Knight
Eduardo Kohn
Dorinne K. Kondo
Andrey Korotayev
Conrad Kottak
Charles H. Kraft
Grover Krantz
Alfred L. Kroeber
Theodora Kroeber
Lars Krutak
Adam Kuper |
List of anthropologists | L | L
William Labov
George Lakoff
Harold E. Lambert
Edmund Leach
Eleanor Leacock
Murray Leaf
Louis Leakey
Mary Leakey
Richard Leakey
Richard Borshay Lee
Charles Miller Leslie
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Ellen Lewin
C. Scott Littleton
Albert Buell Lewis
Oscar Lewis
Phillip Harold Lewis
Roland Littlewood
Robert Lowie
Nancy Lurie |
List of anthropologists | M | M
Alan Macfarlane
Saba Mahmood
Bronisław Malinowski
George Marcus
Jonathan M. Marks
Karl Marx
John Alden Mason
Michael Atwood Mason
Marcel Mauss
Phillip McArthur
Irma McClaurin
Charles Harrison McNutt
Margaret Mead
Mervyn Meggitt
Josef Mengele
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Emily Martin
Horace Mitchell Miner
Sidney Mintz
... |
List of anthropologists | N | N
Laura Nader
Moni Nag
Jeremy Narby
Raoul Naroll
Josiah Nott
Erland Nordenskiöld |
List of anthropologists | O | O
Gananath Obeyesekere
Kaori O'Connor
Aihwa Ong
Marvin Opler
Morris Opler
Sherry Ortner
Keith F. Otterbein
Evelia Edith Oyhenart |
List of anthropologists | P | P
Elsie Clews Parsons
Bronisław Piłsudski
Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Hortense Powdermaker
A.H.J. Prins
Harald E.L. Prins |
List of anthropologists | Q | Q
Buell Quain
James Quesada |
List of anthropologists | R | R
Paul Rabinow
Wilhelm Radloff
Laurence Ralph
Lucinda Ramberg
Roy Rappaport
Hans Ras
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
Margaret Read
Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Kathy Reichs
Audrey Richards
W. H. R. Rivers
Paul Rivet
Uzma Z. Rizvi
Joel Robbins
Renato Rosaldo
Gayle Rubin
Robert A. Rubinstein |
List of anthropologists | S | S
Marshall Sahlins
Noel B. Salazar
Roger Sandall
Edward Sapir
Patricia Sawin
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Wilhelm Schmidt
Tobias Schneebaum
James C. Scott
Thayer Scudder
Elman Service
Afanasy Shchapov
Gerald F. Schroedl
Florence Connolly Shipek
Sydel Silverman
Audra Simpson
Cathy Small
Christen A. Smith
Jacques Soustelle
Melf... |
List of anthropologists | T | T
Michael Taussig
Sharika Thiranagama
Edward Burnett Tylor
Colin Turnbull
Victor Turner
Bruce Trigger |
List of anthropologists | V | V
Karl Verner
L. P. Vidyarthi
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf |
List of anthropologists | W | W
Anthony F. C. Wallace
Lee Henderson Watkins
Camilla Wedgwood
Hank Wesselman
Kath Weston
Douglas R. White
Isobel Mary White
Leslie White
Tim White
Benjamin Whorf
Unni Wikan
Clark Wissler
Eric Wolf
Alvin Wolfe
Sol Worth |
List of anthropologists | Y | Y
Nur Yalman
Kim Yeshi |
List of anthropologists | Z | Z
Jarrett Zigon
R. Tom Zuidema |
List of anthropologists | Fictional anthropologists | Fictional anthropologists
Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in the television series Bones
Temperance Brennan in the novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs
Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
Michael ... |
List of anthropologists | See also | See also
List of female anthropologists
List of Black Anthropologists
List of Chinese sociologists and anthropologists |
List of anthropologists | References | References
Anthropologists
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List of anthropologists | Table of Content | Short description, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y, Z, Fictional anthropologists, See also, References |
Actinopterygii | Short description | Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of skin supported by radially extended thin bony spines called lepidotrichia, as op... |
Actinopterygii | Characteristics | Characteristics
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A: dorsal fin, B: fin rays, C: lateral line, D: kidney, E: swim bladder, F: Weberian apparatus, G: inner ear, H: brain, I: nostrils, L: eye, M: gills, N: heart, O: stomach, P: gall bladder, Q: spleen, R: internal sex organs (ovaries or testes), S: ventral fins, T: spine, U: anal fin, V... |
Actinopterygii | Body shapes and fin arrangements | Body shapes and fin arrangements
Ray-finned fish vary in size and shape, in their feeding specializations, and in the number and arrangement of their ray-fins. |
Actinopterygii | Reproduction | Reproduction
thumb|left|Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) males (red belly) build nests and compete to attract females to lay eggs in them. Males then defend and fan the eggs. Painting by Alexander Francis Lydon, 1879
In nearly all ray-finned fish, the sexes are separate, and in most species the females... |
Actinopterygii | Classification and fossil record | Classification and fossil record
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Actinopterygii is divided into the subclasses Cladistia, Chondrostei and Neopterygii. The Neopterygii, in turn, is divided into the infraclasses Holostei and Teleostei. During the Mesozoic (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous) and Cenozoic the teleosts in particular divers... |
Actinopterygii | Taxonomy | Taxonomy
The listing below is a summary of all extinct (indicated by a dagger, †) and living groups of Actinopterygii with their respective taxonomic rank. The taxonomy follows Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and Phylogenetic Classification of Bony Fishes with notes when this differs from Nelson, ITIS and FishBase and ex... |
Actinopterygii | References | References |
Actinopterygii | External links | External links
Category:Fish classes
Category:Extant Silurian first appearances |
Actinopterygii | Table of Content | Short description, Characteristics, Body shapes and fin arrangements, Reproduction, Classification and fossil record, Taxonomy, References, External links |
Albert Einstein | Short description | Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula , which arises from special relativity, has been called "the world's most f... |
Albert Einstein | Life and career | Life and career |
Albert Einstein | Childhood, youth and education | Childhood, youth and education
thumb|upright|left|alt=A young boy with short hair and a round face, wearing a white collar and large bow, with vest, coat, skirt, and high boots. He is leaning against an ornate chair.|Einstein in 1882, age3
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German ... |
Albert Einstein | Marriages, relationships and children | Marriages, relationships and children
thumb|Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić Einstein, 1912
Correspondence between Einstein and Marić, discovered and published in 1987, revealed that in early 1902, while Marić was visiting her parents in Novi Sad, she gave birth to a daughter, Lieserl. When Marić returned to Switzerl... |
Albert Einstein | Assistant at the Swiss Patent Office (1902–1909) | Assistant at the Swiss Patent Office (1902–1909)
alt=Head and shoulders shot of a young, mustached man with dark, curly hair wearing a plaid suit and vest, striped shirt, and a dark tie.|thumb|upright=1|Einstein at the Swiss patent office, 1904Einstein graduated from the federal polytechnic school in 1900, duly certif... |
Albert Einstein | First scientific papers (1900–1905) | First scientific papers (1900–1905)
thumb|upright|alt=Cover image of the PhD dissertation of Albert Einstein|Einstein's 1905 dissertation,
Einstein's first paper, "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Conclusions drawn from the phenomena of capillarity"), in which he proposed a model of intermolecular a... |
Albert Einstein | Academic career in Europe (1908–1933) | Academic career in Europe (1908–1933)
Einstein's sabbatical as a civil servant approached its end in 1908, when he secured a junior teaching position at the University of Bern. In 1909, a lecture on relativistic electrodynamics that he gave at the University of Zurich, much admired by Alfred Kleiner, led to Zurich's l... |
Albert Einstein | Putting general relativity to the test (1919) | Putting general relativity to the test (1919)
thumb|right| The New York Times reported confirmation of the bending of light by gravitation after observations (made in Príncipe and Sobral) of the 29 May 1919 eclipse were presented to a joint meeting in London of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society on 6... |
Albert Einstein | Coming to terms with fame (1921–1923) | Coming to terms with fame (1921–1923)
thumb|upright|left|Einstein's official portrait after receiving the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics
With Eddington's eclipse observations widely reported not just in academic journals but by the popular press as well, Einstein became , a genius who had shattered a paradigm that had b... |
Albert Einstein | Serving the League of Nations (1922–1932) | Serving the League of Nations (1922–1932)
thumb|Einstein at a session of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (League of Nations) of which he was a member from 1922 to 1932
From 1922 until 1932, with the exception of a few months in 1923 and 1924, Einstein was a member of the Geneva-based Internatio... |
Albert Einstein | Touring South America (1925) | Touring South America (1925)
In March and April 1925, Einstein and his wife visited South America, where they spent about a week in Brazil, a week in Uruguay and a month in Argentina. Their tour was suggested by Jorge Duclout (1856–1927) and Mauricio Nirenstein (1877–1935) with the support of several Argentine schola... |
Albert Einstein | Touring the US (1930–1931) | Touring the US (1930–1931)
thumb|upright=.8|Einstein in Pasadena, California, 1931
In December 1930, Einstein began another significant sojourn in the United States, drawn back to the US by the offer of a two month research fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. Caltech supported him in his wish that h... |
Albert Einstein | Emigration to the US (1933) | Emigration to the US (1933)
thumb|upright|alt=Cartoon of Einstein, who has shed his "Pacifism" wings, standing next to a pillar labeled "World Peace". He is rolling up his sleeves and holding a sword labeled "Preparedness".|Cartoon of Einstein after shedding his "pacifism" wings (Charles R. Macauley, )
In February 19... |
Albert Einstein | Refugee status | Refugee status
thumb|Landing card for Einstein's 26 May 1933 arrival in Dover, England from Ostend, Belgium, enroute to Oxford
In April 1933, Einstein discovered that the new German government had passed laws barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities. Historian Gerald Holton... |