CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

A TRULY BEAUTIFUL MIND

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When Einstein wrote his 1905 papers, he was working as a:
A
Private tutor.
B
Engineer.
C
Professor
D
Patent Officer.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -After two frustrating years of job hunting, Einstein moved to Bern to work as a clerk in the Swiss patent office. Working six days a week as a patent clerk, Einstein could barely find any time to develop his scientific ideas, and would eventually give up on a career in physics.

Detailed explanation-2: -Einstein as patent assessor and inventor Even later, when Albert Einstein had long since achieved fame and honours, he continued to deal with patents: Between 1915 and 1928, Einstein prepared various court opinions on patent disputes, but also private expertises for companies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis-his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc².

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1905 (age 26), while a class 3 clerk at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, Albert Einstein published five papers that shocked the physics community and drastically transformed our view of the universe. All the papers were published in Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), the main German journal about physics.

Detailed explanation-5: -Eventually he was offered a job by his friend’s father at a Swiss patent office in 1902, where Einstein’s task was to look through inventions, check their originality, and write clear patents to protect the inventors’ new ideas.

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