History of albert einstein life
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Einstein’s Early Life ()
Born on March 14, , in the southern German city of Ulm, Albert Einstein grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Munich. As a child, Einstein became fascinated by music (he played the violin), mathematics and science. He dropped out of school in and moved to Switzerland, where he resumed his schooling and later gained admission to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich. In , he renounced his German citizenship, and remained officially stateless before becoming a Swiss citizen in
Did you know? Almost immediately after Albert Einstein learned of the atomic bomb's use in Japan, he became an advocate for nuclear disarmament. He formed the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists and backed Manhattan Project scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer in his opposition to the hydrogen bomb.
While at Zurich Polytechnic, Einstein fell in love with his fellow student Mileva Maric, but his parents opposed the match and he lacked the money to marry. The coup
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Albert Einstein: In Brief
In , Albert Einstein was born to a middle-class German Jewish family. His parents were concerned that he scarcely talked until the age of three, but he was not so much a backward as a quiet child. He would build tall houses of cards and hated playing soldier. At the age of twelve, he was fascinated by a geometry book.
At the age of fifteen, Albert quit high school, disgusted by rote learning and martinet teachers, and followed his family to Italy where they had moved their failing electrotechnical business. After half a year of wandering and loafing, he attended a congenial Swiss school. The next year he entered the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.
After working hard in the laboratory but skipping lectures, Einstein graduat
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Albert Einstein
German-born physicist (–)
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| Born | ()14 March Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
| Died | 18 April () (aged&#;76) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Spouses | Mileva Marić &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;Elsa Löwenthal &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
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| Family | Einstein |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions)&#;() |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other&#;academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
Albert Einstein (, EYEN-styne;[4]German:[ˈalbɛʁtˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn]ⓘ; 14 March – 18 April ) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best kn