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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time.
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Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. He was a poor student but he excelled at Maths and Science.
The Early Years -
He renounced his German citizenship.
He was admitted to the Polytechnic School in Zurich. -
Einstein and Mileva were students at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic University. They got married in 1903 and they had 3 children. -
He received a PhD from the University of Zurich.
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He began publications on the General Theory of Relativity.
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Einstein was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. -
In 1933 Einstein and his family moved to the USA in order to escape from Nazi's cruelty towards the Jews and a few years later he took the American cityzenship. -
Albert re-wrote the manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity.
Special Theory of Relativity -
Albert Einstein’s time on earth ended on April 18, 1955, at the Princeton Hospital. Shortly after Einstein’s death, a pathologist removed his brain without the permission of his family, and stored it in formaldehyde until around 2007.