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who discovered e=mc2
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of this century. One of his most well-known accomplishments is the formula  E= mc2

Einstein's formula tells us the amount of energy this mass would be equivalent to, if it were all suddenly turned into energy. This is an incredible amount of energy! A Joule is not a large unit of energy ... one Joule is about the energy released when you drop a textbook to the floor. But the amount of energy in 30 grams of hydrogen atoms is equivalent to burning hundreds of thousands of gallons of gasoline!


If you consider all the energy in the full kilogram of water, which also contains oxygen atoms, the total energy equivalent is close to 10 million gallons of gasoline!
The Manhatten Project, which did in fact produce the first tangible evidence of  E=mc2 the atomic bomb!


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