BIRTH-DATE AND PLACE:
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany.
FAMILY MEMBERS:
Albert is the first born son to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. In 1881 Einstein’s sister was born in Munich, Germany. His Father and his Uncle Jacob owned a small electrochemical factory. Einstein married Mileva Maric and they had two sons. After he and Mileva divorced he then married his cousin Elsa.
CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL LIFE:
Einstein did not develop normally as a child. He did not speak his first words until he was 3. He often question authority which he got from watching soldiers march down the street. When Einstein was six he took violin lessons. He only took them because his parents insisted him to. He took lessons for seven years and kept playing until his death.
Einstein went to a Catholic school instead of a Jewish school because it was closer. At first he liked school but it was to a short end. He attended a Gymnasium when he was old enough and fell in love with math and physics. When Einstein had a year left to graduate he took exams to get into a Swiss college, the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School. He failed the exams but since he scored so high in math and science he was recommended to get a diploma at the Swiss Cantonal School of Aargua. He passed the exams a second time. In college he barely went to class and when the exams to graduate came up he used a friends notes to study and passed.
HOBBIES, INTEREST, AND ACTIVITIES:
On Einsteins free time he liked to play the violin. He also liked to go any free concert he could find and enjoy the music. He like to play with a compass his father had gave him. He liked to figure out why the point would always point north.
ANECDOTES:
An interesting story about Einstein is that he had three or four different citizenships. Because of being born in Germany he had a German citizenship before giving that up. He then had a Swiss citizenship which he kept until his death. While Einstein was still a Swiss he also got an American citizenship. In the end Einstein belonged to two countries. Einstein should have belong to three but gave it up because he did not like the German policies.
Another interesting story is that he was the one to persuade FDR to impose the Manhattan Project. He was chosen out of all of his co-workers to do this. He was also the one leading the project from the start to create a nuclear bomb. He only agreed to work on this project if the American Government promised not to use it on another human race.
CAREER:
Einstein first job was a substitute teacher. Later his first full time job was at a Patent office. His three 1905 papers led to a professorship in Zurich. This lasted two years because the University of Prague wanted him as a full professor. After one year in Prague he accepted a job at Zurich Polytechnic where he was an under graduate. After two years he got a job as one of Europe’s Theoretical Physicist. After World War 2 started Einstein was threatened by HItler to not go back to Germany or he will be killed, so he accepted a job at the Institute for advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. During the war he was a consultant for the Research and Development Division of the Navy Bureau of Ordnance.
REASON FOR FAME:
Einstein is famous because of his work on the Quantum Theory. He is also famous for his work on the Relativity Theory. His version of this theory disproved the one before it once it could be tested. He is also famous for his Nobel Prize and his three 1905 papers he wrote. One of which he said to be the most truly scientific which was on Space-Time and Curved Space. His most famous accomplishment though was he his equation, E=MC^2, which we still use today.
OLDAGE:
In Einsteins old age he worked on the Atomic Bomb for the USA. He was the leader of the Manhattan project and was also actively involved in the military. After formally retiring in 1945 he still continued to speak and to work on his own stuff.
DEATH:
Albert Einstein died on April 18th, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of 76. An opera in Germany was written about his life.
