The World's Two Greatest Theoretical Physicists, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking, Share a Significant Day (Today)

The two famous physicists in their own changed the way we see the universe, share this Day, March 14th.

Today is the 142nd birthday of the great German-born theoretical physicist and mathematician, Albert Einstein.

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Einstein suffered from a mild case of Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, as well as attention deficit disorder (ADD).

Einstein, of course, developed the theory of relativity and the mass equivalence formula: E=mc2. By the age of 26, he had published four ground-breaking papers: Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy. He would go on to publish more than 300 scientific papers. He was visiting the U.S. when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933; being Jewish, he did not want to return to Germany, eventually becoming a U.S. citizen.

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Coincidentally, March 14th also marks the day legendary scientist Stephen Hawking passed away,...

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