Who discovered the theory of relativity??
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From jacko's response, I wanted to clear something up.  He did not win the nobel prize for relativity.  He won it his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905.  Unfortunately a large number of people believe he got the nobel prize for this and wanted to make sure what you said didn't propagate this even more.  He was a great man and did many more things for the field of physics than just relativity, several of which made numerous advances by other physicists possible.
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Einstein was a genius.  Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) was a theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century. He independently developed the special and general theories of relativity and made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics".\n\nAfter British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed that light rays from distant stars were deflected by the gravity of the Sun in the amount he had predicted in his theory of relativity, Einstein became world-famous, an unusual achievement for a scientist. In his later years, his fame perhaps exceeded that of any other scientist in history. In popular culture, his name has become synonymous with great intelligence and genius.
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Stephen Hawking, who made significant discoveries in Cosmology, specifically related to black holes, the history of the universe, the theory of relativity, and the "theory of everything."
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He was never able to write it. He was in the middle of trying to create one theory for electromagnatism and his own theory of relativity when he died. It is yet to be done to create such a theory, although the string theory could possibly be it.
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He constructed the the general theory of relativity.\nHis ideas were extremely original.\nHe predicted that light beams can be deviated by mass of the sun.\nHe predicted a peculiar movement of the planet Mercury.\nExperimentally both theoretical statements were confirmed by observations.\nSo he was a real genius.\n\nTh
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Newton' and Einstein's on relativity
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A sampling of famous astronomers\nAstronomer Contribution \nHipparchus and Ptolemy Determined the positions of about 1,000 bright stars, tried to explain the puzzles of astronomy without refuting only believed geocentric model of universe and classified stars by magnitude. \nAristarchus of Samos First known person to propound the heliocentric model of universe. Attempted to calculate the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. \nNasir al-Din al-Tusi This Persian astronomer gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry. Made very accurate tables of planetary movements and named many stars. Developed the Tusi-couple which resolves linear motion into the sum of two circular motions. He also calculated the value of 51' for the precession of the equinoxes and contributed to construction and usage of astrolabe. \nNicolaus Copernicus First exponent of heliocentrism in modern times. \nTycho Brahe Did develop many important astronomical instruments, and achieved accurate measurments of the heavens by improving scentific methodology and by designing instruments on a large scale. His measurements of the orbit of Mars were very important to the development of astronomy. \nJohannes Kepler Suggested the elliptical orbits of planets, and propounded his Laws of Planetary Motion. \nGalileo Galilei Was the first to use the telescope to observe the sky. Condemned to house arrest for his discoveries by Inquisitional edict, which was lifted 359 years later by Pope John Paul II. \nIsaac Newton Published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), containing the "Newton's laws of motion", which are fundamental to mechanical physics, and which explained Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Predicted the orbits of the planets. \nSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Extensive work on the internal mechanisms of stars, particularly known for determining the effect of special relativity on stars, including being the first to calculate the Chandrasekhar limit, which he did, without a calculator, on a boat journey. \nHenrietta Swan Leavitt Catalogued Cepheid variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds, in 1912 discovered the relationship between luminosty and periodicity in Cepheids -- leading to Hertzprung's later work. \nEjnar Hertzsprung determined the distance to several Cepheids, when Cepheids were detected in other galaxies such as the Andromeda galaxy, the distance to those galaxies could then be determined. \nEdwin Hubble Discovered the expansion of the universe. (Hubble's Law) The Hubble Orbiting Space Telescope was named in his honor.
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Hubble discovered expansion...sort of. He proposed it as a theory but it was a colleague who did the math and proved it. I can't remember the colleague's name.
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the one who discovered/ invented it had the last name of fahrenheit.
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Energy equals mass times the speed of light sqaured. It is a theory discovered by Einstein known as the theory of relativity in 1905. It says that iff you go faster than the speed of light you can have advantage over time and space is related to time.
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Part of the Beauty of Einstein's work on relativity is how easy it applied all the existing work, including Newton's work. When it comes to calculating forces necessary to bend light around a sun relativity does come into play.  And you are right early attempts were thwarted by weather and such. As I recall the first such measurements were carried out by a party that journeyed down to South Africa to make observations during a solar eclipse.  They were doing it, not to prove Newton's work, but to test the need for Einstein's corrective formulas.  The measurements were a roaring success and Einstein's ideas concerning Spacetime was quickly excepted by the larger scientific community.\n\nAppended thoughts - Before we get all sanctimonious here, let us keep in mind Newton and Einstein were 300 years apart, both men were geniuses, both men were deeply religious and both men DEFENDED errors in their thinking.  This is what Kuhn talked of when he put forth his ideas on Paradigm Shifts.  It was Maxwell who punched holes in Newton's thinking on Aether and it was Bohr who ushered in Quantum Mechanics. And it was hundred other people making a hundred other contributions that have gotten us where we are today.  And there will probably be a hundred more in the future trying to sort out these difficult questions.
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Hey babygurlgonnaloveonu you have asked what is totally QUESTION NUMBER ONE in physics. It's an exciting question which many teachers secretly don't understand and so their students get this hazy idea and kind of go thru the motions. \n\nWow, it is so basic, that it took a super-genius, I mean way smarter than Einstein, to figure it out. A good old farm boy, astrologer, magician & alchemist, religious fanatic, mathematician and all around kook. Yep. Sir Isaac Newton. You gotta wonder what kind of parents would name their kid "Sir"\n\nWell we all know what a force is, it is a sort of push or pull -- think of it as something that changes or *tries to change* the motion of stuff.\n\nNewton first figured out that if you leave a thing alone, or if the pushes and pulls on it cancel out, then it will sit there like a lump. Like those drivers wearing hats, and like sit there after the light has already turned green two minutes ago. \n\nOr else a thing  will keep moving in the same straight line direction and speed  like those drivers wearing hats who go 40 mph on the expressway with their turn signal blinking on and on. This is known as "THE HAT LAW".\n\nAll was well until he noticed that things move faster in an amount equal to how much you bully them or push them around. Twice the force, twice the fasterness and fasterness (also known as acceleration). This is called the "YOU BIG BULLY LAW".\n\nThen he discovered a fly in the ointment. His HAT and BULLY laws didn't really explain all that much. Something was gumming up this beautiful theory. We call it MASS and it is still an unknown mystery as to what it really is. So we vaguely call it the amount of stuff or matter in a thing. \n\nSo he found out that for a certain force the faster-isity (acceleration) is cut in half if you double the mass. The bully has to push twice as hard to fasterize two little kids. So he was like "I'll just add that in, and all will be cool". The "YOU BIG BULLY LAW" and "THE HAT LAW" totally did it all. Wa ta da babee!\n\nBut then Newton had a road accident. He was gunning his Harley over London bridge at like 250 when a bug  hit him in the mouth and knocked out one of his wooden teeth. He was all "Why am I so in pain?". And the bug as it squooshed said "Help! I'm a bug!"\n\nSo spitting out the splinters of his wooden tooth and the splattered bug, he had this revelation. He realized that because he was moving so fast, and the  bug slowed down so fast, that even a eentsy mass like a bug was like taking a hammer to his tooth. \n\nHe noticed that the force was equal to the mass of the bug times the speed of impact all happening in a brief moment. Since Newton spoke Latin (he  was the love child of Joe Newton and an Italian governess) he wrote "Fastus buggus ina momentum hurtus like crazy." Today we call this "momentum". It is just "mass times speed" or "force times a small moment of time". \n\nAnd he realized that the bug smashed up his tooth, but also that the bug was squashed (like a bug) because they were trading the EXACT same amount of momentum. The force on the tooth by the bug in the moment of time was PRECISELY equal to the  smacko-ing the tooth used to stop the bug dead. \n\nHe said "Hey, like he broke my tooth, but I killed him soooo dead!" He did the math and found that the force of the bug on the tooth was equal to the force of the tooth on the bug! \n\nNo way did the two equal forces cancel, after all, his tooth was hammered to splinters, and the bug was flattened. They were equal and opposite, but since one was on the tooth, and the other force was on the bug they did serious damage! Today we call this the "HELP I'M A BUG" law.\n\nNow our man 'Zack was all set. He wrote down his three laws:\n\nTHE HAT LAW (beeep! beeep! Move it Hat Guy!)\nTHE YOU BIG BULLY LAW (betcha can't kno
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It started with the Egyptians, expanded by Greeks, Indians and Romans and united with Algebra by Descartes. Riemann unseated Euclid and his geometry was used by Einstien for the Relativity theory.
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Of course, it's difficult to say. The understanding of the cosmos is full of extraordinary ideas and insights. I'd tend to mention Copernico, who first stepped on the modern view of the Universe putting the Earth moving around the sun. And then Kepler, who gave the three fundamental laws of planetary movement, based on the extremely accurate and extensive data collected by Tycho Brahe WITHOUT a telescope.  And of course, Einstein. His General Relativity Theory is the cornerstone of the current cosmology.
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try these links\nthts a really good question but its explainations is quite lengthy. so maybe if u go through all these links, u might get wat u really are looking for\n\nwww.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html\n\nwww.bartleby.com/173/\n\nwww-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/ ~history/HistTopics/General_relativity.html \n\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity\n\nwww2.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/GenRelativity.html\n\ngood luck and have fun!
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1- Albert Eienstien ( His work in explaining the electrophotonic cell based on quantum mechanics)...note: this is not his greatest work, the theory of relativity is more important but it was not understandable by other scientists that time.\n\n2- Maxwell ( His work in establish the Electromagnetic Theory ).\n\n3- NIELS BOHR (for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them)\n\n4- WERNER HEISENBERG (for the creation of quantum mechanics, the application of which has, inter alia, led to the discovery of the allotropic forms of hydrogen)\n\n5-  WOLFGANG PAULI (for the discovery of the Exclusion Principle, also called the Pauli Principle)
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Einstein.\n\n\n\nEinstein was just a God in human form. The man came up with some of the most influential ideas of the millennia, without being able to test his ideas. He just used the power of his imagination, and was right on almost all accounts.\n\n\nHe could figure out anything. He has his fingerprints in just about every major discovery involving physics during the early 20th century. If it had of been possible back then, he should be have been cloned, because he probably would have finally solved the theory of everything.\n\n\nEinstein was far beyond Newton in terms of thought. Newton was extremely influential, and spent probably every waking hour of his life on his work, dieing a virgin. However, his creative ideas stand nowhere near Einstein. Atleast in terms of creative physics.