Albert Einstein

The Biography of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879 in Ulm, WÑŒrttemberg, Germany, into a Jewish Family. His mother's name was Pauline Einstein, and his father's name was Hermann Einstein, who was a salesman. In 1800, The Einstein Family moved to Munich, in which Hermann Einstein (Albert's Father) and his uncle founded a company called Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie. Which made electrical equipment that allowed Munich suburbs of Schwabing to be provided with the first light. Einstein went to a Catholic elementary school during the 1800s, he who was a top student even with his early speech difficulties. His mother had forced him to play the violin, as she provided him with violin lessons. He didn't like to go to his violin lessons and he finally quit, but has remained to listen to Mozart's violin sonatas for pleasure.

"A deep lasting impression" was made on Einstein, as his father showed him a pocket compass, when he was five years old. As years went by, Einstein made himself mechanical devices for fun, and started to enjoy the talent he gained for mathematics. Einstein, at ten years old, was introduced to key science and philosophy texts by a family friend who was a medical student during 1889. Einstein called "The Holy Little Geometry Book." Einstein started to understand the concepts of deductive reasoning, and when he was twelve, he learned Euclidean geometry from a school booklet, and then soon began to look at calculus.

Einstein went to the Luitpold Gymnasium, which is a secondary school in Munich, Germany, during his early teens. His father planned for him to look at electrical engineering, but it didn't work out too well. In the Einstein family moved to Italy in Milan, and then to Pavia because of his fathers failed business, this all happened 1994, when Einstein was fifteen years old and wrote his first work, "The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields." However, during Einstein's family move, he was left behind to finish school in Munich, Germany. In 1995, he withdrew from school by using a doctor's note, so that he join his family in Pavia.

Einstein decided to directly apply to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, rather than finishing high school. However, he was required to take an exam before entering, but failed the exam. Mr. And Mrs. Einstein sent him to Aarau, Switzerland to finish secondary school. He fell in love with the daughter of Professor Jost Winteler. Her name was Sofia Marie-Jean Amanda Winteler. In Aarau, he studied Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. He graduated in 1896 at the age of 17, and renounced his citizenship in Germany to avoid military service, in which his father approved of.

Einstein finally got enrolled in the mathematics program at ETH. Mileva Maric also went to ETH in 1896, being the only woman studying mathematics. As years went by, they both began to develop a friendship, and then it ran deeper into a romantic relationship. However, Einstein's mother didn't approve of Mileva because she was too old and not Jewish. He became a citizen of Switzerland, which he never gave up on February 20th, 1901. However, Einstein and Mileva had a daughter early in 1902. In the 1900s Einstein graduated from ETH with a teaching degree.

After Graduating, He couldn't find a job in the teaching industry. His job search lasted for two years until the father of one of his classmates got him a job at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property, as an assistant examiner. His job was to evaluate patent applications for electromagnetic devices. His position at the Swiss Patent Office was made permanent in 1903. In 1903, Einstein married Mileva on January 6. Their first born son was on May 14, 1904 named Hans Albert Einstein, and their second son was born named Eduard Einstein, who was born on July 28, 1910. Einstein became an associate professor at the University of Zurich, but accepted a job as a professor at the Charles University of Prague and published a paper on the gravity effects on light.

Mileva and Einstein divorced on February 14, 1919 as a result of them being apart from each other for five years. In June of the same year, he married Elsa, who took care of him through his illness. Surprisingly, Elsa was Einstein's first cousin. In 1921, he was awarded the Noble Prize in Physics. Einstein went to New York City for the first time on April 2, 1921.

Einstein was a cultural Zionist and a cofounder of the liberal German Democratic Party. Einstein was all about enforcing peace during Germany's rising militarism. Adolf Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in January of 1933, and his