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Born in Ulm.
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He began his higher studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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Acquire Switzerland nationality.
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He joined the Federal Patent Office in Bern as a civil servant.
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He marries Mileva Maric, with whom he will have two children.
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He publishes his first articles in which he addresses the fields of Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity.
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Get your first tenure as a full professor at the University of Zurich.
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He is appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin.
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He publishes the General Theory of Relativity.
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Divorced from Mileva, he married Elsa, a cousin of hers.
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Meet Leo Szilard, with whom you will develop inventions such as a refrigerator and an electromagnetic pump with no moving parts.
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He receives the Nobel Prize in physics.
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He left Germany and lived in exile in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States, the latter country where he was enthusiastically received. There he will be Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Princeton Institute for Higher Studies.
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Letter to Roosevelt asking him to undertake an atomic bomb research program.
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Adopt American citizenship.
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He retires from teaching to be able to exclusively develop his theoretical research.
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He died in Princeton (USA).