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Born
Ulm, Germany -
Younger sister born
Maria, known as Maja -
Admitted to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School
In Zurich, Switzerland. Lost German citizenship and became stateless. -
Published first paper
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First job
Worked at the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland -
Birth of daughter
Leiserl Maric, died or given up for adoption 1903 -
Married
Wed Mileva Maric -
Special Theory of Relativity
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Photoelectric Effect
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Becomes a professor
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Birth of son
Eduard Einstein -
Paper on critical opalescence
Explains why the sky is blue -
Birth of son
Hans Albert Einstein -
General Theory of Relativity
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Divorced
From Mileva Maric, separated five years earlier -
Remarried
To his cousin Elsa Löwenthal -
Won Nobel Prize
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Moved to the US
AS a result of antisemitic ideas in Germany -
Began working at Princeton
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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
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Wife died
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Signed letter to FDR
Encouraged development of atomic bomb before Germany -
US Citizenship
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Chairman of Emergency Committee for Atomic Scientists
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Signed Russell-Einstein Manifestoed
Warning against using nuclear weapons -
Died
Princeton, New Jersey of an aortic aneurysm