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albert einstein was born march 14 1879 -
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Albert Einstein
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school
Einsteinattended a Catholic elementary school from the age of five until ten. Although Einstein had early speech difficulties, he was a top student in elementary school -
Introduced to science
In 1889, Max Talmud (later changed to Max Talmey) introduced the ten-year old Einstein to key texts in science, mathematics and philosophy -
Moving
In 1894, his father's company failed.In search of business, the Einstein family moved to Italya few months later, to Pavia -
In the spring
In the spring of 1895 Einstein wrote his first scientific work, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields". -
School and.....love.?
The Einsteins sent Albert to Aarau, in northern Switzerland to finish secondary school.[7] While lodging with the family of Professor Jost Winteler, he fell in love with the family's daughter, Marie. -
Graduation
At age 17, he graduated, and, with his father's approval, renounced his citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg to avoid military service, and in 1896 he enrolled in the four year mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Polytechnic in Zurich. -
Einstein's future wife
Einstein's future wife, Mileva Marić, also enrolled at the Polytechnic that same year, the only woman among the six students in the mathematics and physics section of the teaching diploma course -
Awarded
In 1900 Einstein was awarded the Zurich Polytechnic teaching diploma, but Marić failed the examination -
Lieserl
In early 1902, Einstein and Mileva Marić had a daughter they named Lieserl in their correspondence, who was born in Novi Sad where Marić's parents lived. Her full name is not known, and her fate is uncertain after 1903. -
Einstein and Marić
Einstein and Marić married in January 1903. In May 1904, the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland. Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in July 1910. In 1914, Einstein moved to Berlin, while his wife remained in Zurich with their sons. Marić and Einstein divorced on 14 February 1919, having lived apart for five years. -
Patent Office
In 1903, Einstein's position at the Swiss Patent Office became permanent, although he was passed over for promotion until he "fully mastered machine technology". -
leading scientist
By 1908, he was recognized as a l, and he was appointed lecturer at the University of Berne -
Einstein world famous
In 1911, he had calculated that, based on his new theory of general relativity, light from another star would be bent by the Sun's gravityInternational media reports of this made Einstein world famous -
professor
He became a full professor at Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911 -
returned to Germany
In 1914, he returned to Germany after being appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics (1914–1932)[34] and a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin -
president
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Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal
Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal (née Einstein) on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was his first cousin maternally and his second cousin paternally. In 1933, they emigrated permanently to the United States. In 1935, Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems and died in December 1936 -
Nobel Prize
In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics He also received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1925 -
law barring Jews
While visiting American universities in April, 1933, he learned that the new German government had passed a law barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching at universities -
bounty on his head
Einstein also learned that his name was on a list of assassination targets, with a "$5,000 bounty on his head -
emigrate to the United States
In 1933, Einstein was compelled to emigrate to the United States due to the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler -
atomic bomb
In the summer of 1939, a few months before the beginning of World War II, Einstein was persuaded to write a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and warn him that Nazi Germany might be developing an atomic bomb -
American citizen
Einstein became an American citizen in 1940. Not long after settling into his career at Princeton, -
NAACP
As a member of the NAACP at Princeton who campaigned for the civil rights of African Americans, Einstein corresponded with civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois, and in 1946 Einstein called racism America's "worst disease" -
President of Israel
November 1952, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion offered Einstein the position of President of Israel, a mostly ceremonial post.The offer was presented by Israel's ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, who explained that the offer "embodies the deepest respect which the Jewish people can repose in any of its sons".However, Einstein declined, and wrote in his response that he was "deeply moved", and "at once saddened and ashamed" that he could not accept it: -
Dealth age 76
On April 17, 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Dr. Rudolph Nissen in 1948.He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearancehospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it. Einstein refused surgery, saying: "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.
