Albert Einstein’s Life

This is an essay on Albert Einstein’s Life.

Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879, and died (Aged 76) April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, US. He had a mother called Pauline Einstein.  She had strong personality and was a talented pianist. And a sister called Maja who was 2 years younger than Albert Einstein. And a father called Hermann Einstein, manufacture of electrical parts, was a kind-hearted, rather passive man who was fond of German literature.

 

Albert Einstein abilities became very easy to see at his early age. He learnt to play the violin before 5 years of age and, went ahead against other kids in a lot of areas, including Mathematics. He went to a Catholic primary School in Munich. Albert never liked the School system as it was, he found it very boring, and scholastic ability. It was his uncles, Jacob Einstein and Caesar Koch that made Albert more interested in Mathematics and Science. At age 12 Albert devoted himself to solve the riddle of the “huge world”. His uncles, Caesar Koch lent him a lot of books to read while Uncle Jacob often took him out and explained the beauty of Mathematics such as Algebra.

            At age 15, Albert left school in Germany because of bad grades in most subjects, such as history and languages. Albert moved to Milan following his family, which moved there recently because of his fathers’ Business which was unsuccessful. Albert still wanted to go on with his education so he applied at Zurich’s Swiss Federal Polytechnic to become a teacher. But he failed the entrance exams so he had to attend a technical School. Attending that school, meant he was away from his parents, he lived there as a boarder with his professors, Jost Winteler. Albert Einstein returned to the Zurich Polytechnic, after attending Secondary School at Arau and graduated there in the spring of 1900 as a Secondary School teacher of Mathematics and Physics.

         After graduating at Zurich Polytechnic,  Albert renounced his German citizenship in favour of Swiss. Albert worked for about two months as a Mathematics teacher, he was then employed as Examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern. Now that he had a certain economic security. He married Mileva Maric, his university girlfriend three years later. Albert became a father in 1904, his first son was called Hans Albert. Albert had published a theory in the early 1905 called “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions” in the prestigious physics monthly “Analen der Physik”. That theory had won Albert a Ph.D. degree from the University and was the end for how people thought about the view of the Old Universe.

          In 1095 Albert published four more important papers after his first “A new Determination of Molecular Dimensions”, one of these “Zur Elektrodynamik Bewegter Koerper”(” On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies”), which is now known as the special theory of relativity. That theory of relativity changed the way scientists see the world. Albert Einstein soon returned to his teaching career.  In 1910 he had his second son Eduart. Albert first taught in Zurich and Prague, where he was remembered as a happy man.  In 1914 he moved to Berlin. There the Prussian Academy of Science had offered him a position where he could continue his Research and sometimes had to be a   lecturer at the University of Berlin.  In the same year Mileva, who did not like Berlin, vacationed in Switzerland but was delayed by World War 1, to return back to Berlin. This separation was which lead finally to divorce in 1919. In 1916 Albert while still Berlin had finished his theory of relativity. In 1921 Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect”. This refers to his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect: “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”. This also was supported by the experiment evidence by that time.         

      For his remembrance for what Albert has done, Albert has a 5-meter-tall sculpture of Einstein’s 1905 E = mc2 formula at the 2006 Walk of Ideas, The Albert Einstein Memorial by Robert Berks A unit used in photochemistry, the Einstein. The chemical element 99, einsteinium, The asteroid 2001 Einstein, The Albert Einstein Award, The Albert Einstein Peace Prize.

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  1. atty gatty Says...

    On November 11, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    I’m sorry, but Albert Einstein did NOT get bad grades in school. This is a misconception. Read here: http://www.paulspond.com/index.php?entry=212


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