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Doctoral Researcher

Dynamics and Control group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands

Teaching at Palmer Physical Laboratory (now 302 Frist Campus Center). While not a professor at Princeton, I associated with the physics professors and continued to give lectures on campus.

• Relativity

Junior Researcher and Educator

Dynamics and Control group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University, the Netherlands

Doctor of Philosophy (cum laude)

Awarded by the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Mechanical Engineering

• Soft Robotics
• Continuum Mechanics
• Computational Physics

Master of Science (with honors)

Awarded by the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Mechanical Engineering

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
• Numerical Optimization
• Robotics

Bachelor of Science

Awarded by the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Mechanical Engineering

• Minor on Applied Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to 'those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.'

Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie

Annalen der Physik

The publication of the theory of general relativity made him internationally famous. He was professor of physics at the universities of Zurich (1909–1911) and Prague (1911–1912), before he returned to ETH Zurich (1912–1914).

Zur Elektrody/namik bewegter Körper

Annalen der Physik

It concerned an interpretation of the Michelson–Morley experiment and the properties of light and time. Special relativity incorporates the principle that the speed of light is the same for all inertial observers regardless of the state of motion of the source.

Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt

Annalen der Physik

In the second paper, he applied the quantum theory to light to explain the photoelectric effect. In particular, he used the idea of light quanta (photons) to explain experimental results, but stressed the importance of the experimental results. The importance of his work on the photoelectric effect earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.

Quantum Computing

Quantum computing is the use of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to perform computation. Computers that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers.

• Quantum Teleportation
• Quantum Cryptography