Sociological perspective redirects here. For the journal, see Sociological Perspectives (journal). The term sociological imagination was coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in 1959 to describe the type of insight offered by the discipline of sociology. The term is used in introductory textbooks in sociology to explain the nature of sociology and its relevance in daily life.
Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and the most famous scientist in human history. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, alongside quantum mechanics. He is perhaps best known in popular culture for his mass/energy equivalence formula E=mc2.
Einstein: Einstein's Miracle Year. The ambitious Albert Einstein challenges centuries of scientific thought with his new controversial idea, the General Theory of Relativity. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. Beginning with a flurry of papers in 1905, he turned classical physics on its head with his special and general theories of relativity, which revolutionized scientistsâ understanding of everything from space and time to gravity and energy.