Einstein. The name itself seems to bring a vision, in modern times, of a little man carelessly clad in baggy pants with disordered halo of white hair and soulful brown eyes. Though the physical description of Einstein might not seem genius material, Einstein was a modern Merlin. Albert Einstein conjured and revolutionized ideas of space, time and motion.
             Scientists idolize Albert Einstein for he is most eminent among them, at least in this century. In person he was childlike. But as a man of scientific thought, he was in league with such masterminds as Newton, and Galieo. He was the typical absent-minded genius. One time, he walked into the salon of an ocean liner in his pajamas. Another instance is when he used a $1,500 check for a bookmark, then lost the book. Such cases seem to make Einstein come to life.
             To give some background on this profound prophet of the mind one must look back to March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. The pudgy first child of a bourgeois Jewish couple from southern Germany, where he was strongly influenced by his domineering musically inclined mother, who encouraged his passion for the violin. In his earliest years, Albert Einstein never expressed his genius in any way. Actually he didn't speak till the age of three. During his teenage years he went through a deep religious period. This phase eventually subsided when he started questioning math, science, and philosophy of the time. At the age of 16, Albert devised one of his first thought experiments. These involved no lab and no materials only a mind. This specific thought experiment consisted of Albert trying to imagine a light wave in motion to an observer riding along with it.
             When his family moved to Italy, Einstein dropped out of school. A year later he applied at the famed Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and was denied admission because of his scores on the entrance examination
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