30.6.1905: Einsteins Relativitätstheorie

Jahrhunderte war die Tollwut für viele Menschen das personifizierte Böse - am 6. Juli 1885 gelang es dem französischen Wissenschaftler Louis Pasteur erstmals erfolgreich ein Mittel gegen den Ausbruch der Krankheit einzusetzen. 

Schnell hatte Propagandaminister Goebbels das Potenzial des jungen Mediums Rundfunk erkannt: "Der Rundfunk gehört uns, niemandem sonst. Und den Rundfunk werden wir in den Dienst unserer Idee stellen, und keine andere Idee soll hier zu Wort kommen." 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the man who, in 1905, produced several papers that were to change the world of physics and whose name went on to become a byword for genius. This was Albert Einstein, then still a technical expert at a Swiss patent office, and that year of 1905 bec ...  Show more

The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be precise.Here, the Institute for Advanced Study has hosted some of the greatest scientific minds of our time - Einstein was one of its first Professors, J. Robert Oppenheimer its longest- ...  Show more

Albert Einstein is the theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of relativity and E=MC². He changed our understanding of the universe more than any other scientist. How and why was he such an original thinker? How did his personal life inform his scientific works? Learn mo ...  Show more

The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be precise. Here, the Institute for Advanced Study has hosted some of the greatest scientific minds of our time - Einstein was one of its first professors, J. Robert Oppenheimer its longest ...  Show more