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Albert Einstein // // - // Sara On March 14, 1879 Herman and Pauline Koch Einstein, a Jewish couple, gave birth to Albert Einstein in Ulm, a small city in Southern Germany. Albert also played the violin at a very young age. Albert had a sister whose name was Maja and two brothers. Albert started talking very late when he was about 2-3 years old. Before that his parents consulted a doctor because they thought he had a serious problem. As a high school student, Herman, Einstein’s father had shown a knack for math but his family back then could not afford to send him to a university for math so later he became a business man.

At age 14, Albert was fascinated by math and physics and was given an education at the Luitpold Gymnasium, but despite getting good grades, Albert Einstein did not really like school. In school he was called a “BIEDERMEIR” which is roughly saying “NERD” today. When Albert was 15 years old, his family decided to move to Milan, Italy without him. His father’s company had fallen on hard times and the brothers decided to seek better luck in Italy. Albert left Germany and went to the United States of America to visit his family at the age of 16. He did this because if he did not leave he would have had to be in the military which was required for all males at that time. If he had left after the age of 17 and did not report back to duty, he would be declared/ named a deserter. Einstein was still living in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. He disliked war and thought problems should be solved in a peaceful way. Throughout his life, he would use his fame to do good works and to support world peace. Sadly, World War I kept him from visiting his family in Switzerland. Mileva Maric, who is another physics student. Together they had two sons named Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein. This separation led to a divorce from his wife, Mileva. In 1919 Einstein married again, this time to Elsa Lowenthal. When Albert grew up, unable to find a job as a teacher, he began a job in Berne reviewing patents, or licenses for inventions. He was also an American theoretical physicist and was known for finding E=mc2. Then Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his paper about the photoelectric effect and was also awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for physics. He was awarded a gold medal and 32,000 dollars in prize money. Then he gave the money to his wife to support his sons Albert Einstein is now known for being one of the greatest scientists of all times. He also found it amazing that people called him a genius. He only thought that this was funny because he saw himself as a regular person. He also said that “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

In 1921 he accepted an invitation from a Zionist leader, chain Wiseman, to tour the United States of America to help raise money for the Hebrew university in Jerusalem, a school especially for Jewish students such as Albert Einstein. Then in 1922 he also went on a lecture tour in Japan. He then left the United States in March, 1933 and spent six months in Belgium and other European countries. He also lived in Princeton, New Jersey for part of his long ever interesting life.

Atomic Bomb When World War II started in 1939, Einstein and other scientists were concerned that the Germans would make a new bomb called the atomic bomb. Einstein knew that such a bomb could be created. He was urged by other scientists to write a letter to United States President Franklin D Roosevelt asking all American scientists be allowed to make an atomic bomb first. Although Einstein did write a letter to President Roosevelt, he had no part in the actual development of the atomic bomb. Albert Einstein lived a long and curious life and died in 1955 which is close to living 76 years. He was always hopeful and never time-wasting.

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