Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, and spent his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small shop that manufactured electric machinery. He finished high school in Switzerland, then entered the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. He often cut classes and used the time to study physics or to play the violin. He graduated in 1900 and got a job in the Swiss patent office in 1902. In 1903 he married Mileva Maric, who had been a classmate of his at Polytechnic. They had two sons. Later they divorced and Einstein remarried. In 1905 Einstein received his doctorate from the University of Zurich, for a research paper on molecules. For the rest of his life, he worked on his theories. He received awards and
One of his last acts was to argue, as he has done all his life, for world peace. He was active in the cause of international arms control and world government. In 1935, Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany; Einstein left Germany and went to the United States. He was in ill health the next few years. It was a letter to Bertrand Russell, world renowned peace advocate, in which he agreed that his name should go on a declaration urging all nations to give up nuclear weapons. By 1949 he became ill and spent time in a hospital. honors, including the Nobel Prize in physics. His most famous discoveries were the theories of relativity. One week before his death, Einstein signed his last letter. In 1940, he became a United States citizen and made many contributions to peace during his life. He took a position at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, N. In 1939, he and several physicists wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, pointing out the possibilities of making an atomic bomb and the possibilities that the Germans were making one. Albert Einstein died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.
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