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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein


Albert Einstein was born on March 14,1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg,
Germany.He died April 18 1955 in Princeton,NJ.When Einstein was five years
old his father showed him a compass.He was very impressed by the behavior
of the needle of the compass,which kept pointing in the same direction no
matter which way the compass was turned.He later said he felt that "Something
deeply hidden had to be behind things".
After public school in Munich and in Aarau,Switzerland,Einstein
studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Zurich.He
graduated in 1900.From 1902 to 1909 he worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent
office in Bern.This job as patent examiner gave him a lot of free time,which he
spent doing scientific investigations.He became a Swiss citizen in 1905.Einstein
liked music also.He listened to classical music and played the violin.He
supported zionism and was asked to be the president of Israel when president
Chain Weizmann died in 1952.He decided not to except,saying that he wasn't right
for that position.Einstein was never concerned about money.Publishers from all
parts of the world offered him huge amounts of money for an autobiography.He
never accepted any of their offers.Einstein was married twice.He was seperated
from his first wife after he arrived in Berlin.During World War I he married his
first cousin,Elsa.She shared his life with him until she died in Princeton in
1936.He had two sons from his first marriage.He also had two stepdaughters from
his second marriage.In 1933 while Einstein was visiting England and the United
States the Nazi government of Germany took his property and deprived him of his
positions and his citizenship.Even before this happened he had been asked to
direct the school of mathematics in the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton,New Jersey.He accepted this position and he directed the school for
the rest of his life.Einstein became an American citizen in 1940.After he...