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Einstein is born
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Move to Munich
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Move to Milan
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Einstein persuades his father to apply for a revocation of citizenship of Germany and he moves to Switzerland
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He is a private tutor until 1902
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Publishes a series of papers on processes of physics during the 20th century
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obtains an academic post for the next 3 years
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his great work in the Foundation of the General Theory of Realitivity wa svirtually complete.
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His work was one of the early results introducing the quantum theory into physics, and this won him the Nobel Prize of 1921 for physics.
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Rejected the quantum theory, with which he had done much to establish himself. His basic objection was to the later formulation that included the probability interpretation.
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For the last 30 years of his life, he worked on a quest for a unified theory that explained both electromagnetic and gravitational fields. He published several attempts at such a theory but were all inadequate. This work carried out to his death.
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Einstein makes his permanent home in America when Hitler comes to power, because he was Jewish
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Writes to President Roosevelt to warn him about the possibility of an atomic bomb, and urges American research
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As a stong supporter of Zionist causes, and, on death of Chaim Weizmann, was asked to become the President of Israel, but declined
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Einstein's death