Biography on Albert Einstein

BIBLIOGRAPHY ON ALBERT EINSTEIN

On the morning of March 14 in the year of 1879 the world was purley unawear that a baby was born in the small town of Ulm towards the south of Germany. This baby was to grow up to become one of the greatest scientists in the field of physics and was to revolutionise the way we understand the universe today.

His name was Albert Einstein and he was born as a precious gift to mother Pauline-Knock from a family of wealth and father Herman Einstein, an engineer. Herman had started an engineering business the previous year before the arrival of Albert. This business later failed one year after Albert's birth so the family was forced to move to Munich, where Albert's sister was born; Maja.

At the tender age of five Albert commenced the attendance of his first primary school. Although his parents were Jewish and had been raising Albert in the same traditions of Jewism he attended a Christian school as it was quite close to the family home.

English: receiving from Judge his certificate of A...

English: Albert Einstein, official 1921 Nobel Priz...

Albert Einstein during a lecture in Vienna in 1921

Soon after the start of his education he started to learn how to play the violin and became a very good amateur player. At the young age of seven Albert started to learn algebra with his uncle Jake; a very close friend that would visit Albert to tutor him every afternoon.

During Albert's primary schooling he was a very average and quiet child, there was very little distinguishing him as a future leader of mankind as he was a late learner to walk and didn't speak fluently until he was nine years old, his teachers at his primary school thought of him as a backwards child. After the completion of Albert's primary schooling at the age of ten he attended his secondary school at the...