Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein


           Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg,

Germany.He died April 18 1955 in Princeton,NJ.When Einstein was five years

old his father showed him a compass.He was very impressed by the behavior

of the needle of the compass,which kept pointing in the same direction no

matter which way the compass was turned.He later said he felt that "Something

deeply hidden had to be behind things".

           After public school in Munich and in Aarau,Switzerland,Einstein

studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.He

graduated in 1900.From 1902 to 1909 he worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent

office in Bern.This job as patent examiner gave him a lot of free time,which he

spent doing scientific investigations.He became a Swiss citizen in 1905.Einstein

liked music also.He listened to classical music and played the violin.He

supported zionism and was asked to be the president of Israel when president

Chain Weizmann died in 1952.He decided not to except,saying that he wasn't right

for that position.Einstein was never concerned about money.Publishers from all

parts of the world offered him huge amounts of money for an autobiography.He

never accepted any of their offers.Einstein was married twice.He was seperated

from his first wife after he arrived in Berlin.During World War I he married his

first cousin,Elsa.She shared his life with him until she died in Princeton in

1936.He had two sons from his first marriage.He also had two stepdaughters from

his second marriage.In 1933 while Einstein was visiting England and the United

States the Nazi government of Germany took his property and deprived him of his

positions and his citizenship.Even before this happened he had been asked to

direct the school of mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study in

Princeton,New Jersey.He accepted this position and he directed the school for

the rest of his life.Einstein became an American citizen in 1940.After he took

the job he moved into a two-story house at 112 Mercer St. in Princeton.He lived

and worked there until he died.

         Albert Einstein is best known for his theory of relativity,which he

first advanced in 1905 when he was 26 years old.Einsteins theory revolutionized

scientific thought with new conceptions of time,space,mass,This is ONLY a preview of the article. If you would like to view the entire document, you must subscribe to Electronic References. Please register below now!


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