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The Awesome Life and Contributions of Albert Einstein & How Ambitious Are You

Something You Should Know

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The Immortality of Albert Einstein

The day he became famous, I like to say the day he became immortal was May 29, 1919. He had come up with this general theory of relativity and no one believed him until 1916. The only way to prove that the theory of relativity worked, again, without going into all the science, was to photograph a solar eclipse. And during a solar eclipse, the stars and the sun are aligned just in a certain way that would prove his theory.

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