Albert Einstein

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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...