Indira gandhi brief biography of albert einstein
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Einstein and the Indian Minds: Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru
‘[I] have the greatest admiration for Gandhi and for the Indian tradition in general.’
– Albert Einstein, 1950
In reading Albert Einstein’s biographies[1-6], I noticed that he had connections with three great Indian minds of the early twentieth century: Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Mahatma Gandhi (l869–1948) and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964). Of course, Einstein as well as these three Indian leaders were famous in their lifetimes, so these connections should not come as a surprise. But my interest in this topic grew as I wondered what drew these great minds together. Einstein was not the type of person to be attracted to the exotic East for shallow sentimental reasons. This article chronicles Einstein’s connections with these three men, and shows how Einstein saw some of his ideas and ideals in the Indian mind embodied, to varying degrees, in Tagore, Gandhi and Nehru. Of all Einstein’s biographers, Abraham Pais[4,5] has paid more attention to his Indian connections. While, in writing this historical essay, I have benefited from Pais’ research, I have also added information and ideas using other sources.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Einstein’s death. This article is offered as homage to these four
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Here we will be looking at the life of Albert Einstein. This world-famous theoretical physicist revolutionized the world of physics in the modern world. His contributions to quantum mechanics, like his thesis on the 'Theory of Relativity and The Photoelectric Effect,' have helped scientists find breakthrough discoveries throughout the field of science.
Another significant contribution from him was the mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc². One of the most celebrated and influential physicists of all time. In 1921, he was given the Nobel Prize in Physics for contributing to the concept of 'The Photoelectric Effect.'
Childhood and Education
Einstein was born in Ulm, a city in the German Empire, on March 14th, 1879, to a family of Ashkenazi Jews.
Since childhood, he was always interested in the subject of science. He often recalls how certain events in his early childhood days were pretty significant in his interest in science. At age 5, he was introduced to a compass and mesmerized by its deflecting needle. At age 12, he was interested in Geometry. These were the stepping stones to his intrigue in th
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Indira Gandhi
Prime Ecclesiastic of Bharat from 1966 to 1977 and 1980 to 1984
Indira Gandhi | |
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Official vignette, 1983 | |
| In office 14 Jan 1980 – 31 Oct 1984 | |
| President | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy Zail Singh |
| Vice President | Mohammad Hidayatullah Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| Preceded by | Charan Singh |
| Succeeded by | Rajiv Gandhi |
| In office 24 Jan 1966 – 24 Step 1977 | |
| President | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Zakir Husain V. V. Giri Fakhruddin Kaliph Ahmed B. D. Jatti(Acting) |
| Vice President | |
| Deputy | Morarji Desai (13 March 1967 – 16 July 1969) |
| Preceded by | Lal Bahadur Shastri[a] |
| Succeeded by | Morarji Desai |
| In office 19 July 1984 – 31 October 1984 | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | P. V. Narasimha Rao |
| Succeeded by | Rajiv Gandhi |
| In office 6 Sept 1967 – 13 Feb 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | M. C. Chagla |
| Succeeded by | Dinesh Singh |
| In office 14 Jan 1980 – 15 Jan 1982 | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | Chidambaram Subramaniam |
| Succeeded by | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| In office 1 December 1975 – 20 December 1975 | |
| Prime Minister | Herself |
| Preceded by | Swaran Singh |
| Succeeded by | Ban
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