Einstein's 23 Biggest Mistakes

Please note - the 23 BIGGEST mistakes, not all the tiny ones he made along the way, like that time he put orange juice on his rice krispies. That Albert - what a knucklebeak.

Chronology of Einstein’s Mistakes

1. 1905 Mistake in clock synchronization procedure on which Einstein based special relativity
2. 1905 Failure to consider Michelson-Morley experiment
3. 1905 Mistake in transverse mass of high-speed particles
   
4. 1905 Multiple mistakes in the mathematics and physics used in calculation of viscosity of liquids, from which Einstein deduced size of molecules
   
5. 1905 Mistakes in the relationship between thermal radiation and quanta of light
6. 1905 Mistake in the first proof of E = mc2
7. 1906 Mistakes in the second, third, and fourth proofs of E = mc2
8. 1907 Mistake in the synchronization procedure for accelerated clocks
9. 1907 Mistakes in the Principle of Equivalence of gravitation and acceleration
10. 1911 Mistake in the first calculation of the bending of light
11. 1913 Mistake in the first attempt at a theory of general relativity
12. 1914 Mistake in the fifth proof of E = mc2
13. 1915 Mistake in the Einstein-de Haas experiment
14. 1915 Mistakes in several attempts at theories of general relativity
15. 1916 Mistake in the interpretation of Mach’s principle
16. 1917 Mistake in the introduction of the cosmological constant (the “biggest blunder”)
17. 1919 Mistakes in two attempts to modify general relativity
18. 1925 Mistakes and more mistakes in the attempts to formulate a unified theory
19. 1927 Mistakes in discussions with Bohr on quantum uncertainties
20. 1933 Mistakes in interpretation of quantum mechanics (Does God play dice?)
21. 1934 Mistake in the sixth proof of E = mc2
22. 1939 Mistake in the interpretation of the Schwarzschild singularity and gravitational collapse (the “black hole”)
23. 1946 Mistake in the seventh proof of E = mc²