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BIRTH
lbert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. -
HIS CHILDHOOD
He learned to speak later than usual, he played the violin, and although he was not a good student in languages, he was brilliant in natural sciences. The rigidity of the school rules of his time caused him problems with some of his teachers. Later, after graduating in physics and becoming a professor at the University of Bern, Albert Einstein would become one of the most famous scientists in history thanks, among other things, to his theory of relativity. -
HE WAS TEACHER AND TECHNICAL ASSIST
in 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office -
THE RELATIVITY
In 1905, as an unknown young physicist employed at the Berne Patent Office, he published his theory of special relativity. In it he incorporated, in a simple theoretical framework based on simple physical postulates, concepts and phenomena previously studied by Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz. -
ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE
In 1915, he presented the theory of general relativity, in which he completely reformulated the concept of gravity. One of the consequences was the emergence of the scientific study of the origin and evolution of the universe by the branch of physics called cosmology.In 1919, when British observations of a solar eclipse confirmed his predictions about the bending of light, he was idolized by the press. -
NOBEL PRIZE
For his explanations of the photoelectric effect and his numerous contributions to theoretical physics, in 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics and not for the Theory of Relativity, since the scientist entrusted with the task of evaluating it did not understand it, and they feared run the risk that it would later be proven wrong. At that time it was still considered somewhat controversial. -
HE WENT TO USA
Before the rise of Nazism, Einstein left Germany in December 1932 for the United States, where he dedicated himself to teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study. He became a US citizen in 1940. During his last years he worked to integrate the gravitational and electromagnetic forces into the same theory. -
HIS DEAD
He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton (United States of America). Albert Einstein is perhaps the best known scientist worldwide for the development of the Theory of Relativity that revolutionized known science until the 20th century.