Albert Einstein

by Keith W. Desrosiers

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

A BRIEF HISTORY

CHILDHOOD

Albert Einstein was born March 14 1879 in Ulm Germany, as the first child of his parents Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Albert's abilities became apparent early in his life. He learned to play the violin before 5 and surpassed other kids in a lot of area including math, by the age of seven. From that time on he went to a Catholic primary School in Munich, where his Family moved on year after his birth.
Albert never liked the School system as it was, he found it intimidating and boring, and showed little scholastic ability. It were his uncles Jacob Einstein and Caesar Koch that stimulated his fascination in Mathematics and science, so that at the age of twelve he devoted himself to solve the riddle of the "huge world".
In the age of 15, Albert left school in Germany because of bad grades in several subjects, such as history and languages, and moved to Milan following his family, which moved there recently because of his fathers Business. Having the wish to continue his education he applied at Zurich's Swiss Federal Polytechnic to become a teacher. Failing the entrance exams he had to attend a technical School. Also being away from his parents he lived there as a boarder at on of his professors, Jost Winteler.

EARLY CAREER

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. By then he had given up German citizenship in favor of Swiss, to avoid the draft. He worked about two month as a mathematics teacher, before he was employed as examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern. Having now a certain economic security he married Mileva Maric, his university girlfriend three years later.
Einstein became a father in 1904 when his wife gave birth to his son Hans Albert.
Early in 1905 he published a thesis, "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" in the prestigious physics monthly "Analen der Physik" which won him a Ph.D. from the University and was the begin of the end for the old view of the universe.

HIS FIRST BREAKTHROUGH

In the Year 1905 Albert Einstein 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") is by now better known as the special theory of relativity. This theory, which had it's beginnings in an essay he wrote with 16, should change the way scientist see the world forever.
Albert Einstein soon left the patent office and returned to teach, when in 1910 his second son, Eduart was born.He first taught in Zurich and Prague, where he was remembered as a happy man, but in 1914 moved to Berlin, where the Prussian Academy of science had offered him a position where he could continue his research with just the occasional diversion of lecturing at the University of Berlin. In the same year Mileva, who did not like Berlin, vacationed in Switzerland but were hindered by the eruption of World War I to return to Berlin. This yearlong separation was which lead finally to divorce in 1919. In 1916 while in Berlin, he finished his general theory of relativity.

HIS FINAL YEARS

Einstein was not only interested in Physics,but had also several other interests such as Zionism (The quest for a Jewish state in it's original homeland, palestine) and World peace(Einstein was a pacifist). In 1933, Albert Einstein made a vacation in the US, but because of the Nazis who came to power, never returned. Einstein accepted a full-time position as a foundation member of the school of mathematics at the new institute for advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Albert Einstein knew of the possibility of making a Uranium Bomb and fearing the Nazis would develop one, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt urging watchfulness and quick action on the American side. Albert later talked about this letter as his biggest mistake.
In the later years of his life, he lacked the big breakthrough he had earlier, his attempts to make a unified field theory were immediately but politely critized by most physicists as untenable. But he spent a lot of time trying to bring harmony to the World.
Albert died April 18, 1955 in the age of 76 in his sleep in Princeton hospital. Albert Einstein established himself as a giant of science.

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CHILDHOOD
Albert Einstein was born March 14 1879 in Ulm Germany, as the first child of his parents Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Albert's abilities became apparent early in his life. He learned to play the violin before 5 and surpassed other kids in a lot of area including math, by the age of seven. From that time on he went to a Catholic primary School in Munich, where his Family moved on year after his birth. Albert never liked the School system as it was, he found it intimidating and boring, and showed little scholastic ability. It were his uncles Jacob Einstein and Caesar Koch that stimulated his fascination in Mathematics and science, so that at the age of twelve he devoted himself to solve the riddle of the "huge world". In the age of 15, Albert left school in Germany because of bad grades in several subjects, such as history and languages, and moved to Milan following his family, which moved there recently because of his fathers Business. Having the wish to continue his education he applied at Zurich's Swiss Federal Polytechnic to become a teacher. Failing the entrance exams he had to attend a technical School. Also being away from his parents he lived there as a boarder at on of his professors, Jost Winteler.
EARLY CAREER
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. By then he had given up German citizenship in favor of Swiss, to avoid the draft. He worked about two month as a mathematics teacher, before he was employed as examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern. Having now a certain economic security he married Mileva Maric, his university girlfriend three years later. Einstein became a father in 1904 when his wife gave birth to his son Hans Albert. Early in 1905 he published a thesis, "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" in the prestigious physics monthly "Analen der Physik" which won him a Ph.D. from the University and was the begin of the end for the old view of the universe.
HIS FIRST BREAKTHROUGH
In the Year 1905 Albert Einstein 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") is by now better known as the special theory of relativity. This theory, which had it's beginnings in an essay he wrote with 16, should change the way scientist see the world forever. Albert Einstein soon left the patent office and returned to teach, when in 1910 his second son, Eduart was born.He first taught in Zurich and Prague, where he was remembered as a happy man, but in 1914 moved to Berlin, where the Prussian Academy of science had offered him a position where he could continue his research with just the occasional diversion of lecturing at the University of Berlin. In the same year Mileva, who did not like Berlin, vacationed in Switzerland but were hindered by the eruption of World War I to return to Berlin. This yearlong separation was which lead finally to divorce in 1919. In 1916 while in Berlin, he finished his general theory of relativity.
HIS FINAL YEARS
Einstein was not only interested in Physics,but had also several other interests such as Zionism (The quest for a Jewish state in it's original homeland, palestine) and World peace(Einstein was a pacifist). In 1933, Albert Einstein made a vacation in the US, but because of the Nazis who came to power, never returned. Einstein accepted a full-time position as a foundation member of the school of mathematics at the new institute for advanced study in Princeton, New Jersey. Albert Einstein knew of the possibility of making a Uranium Bomb and fearing the Nazis would develop one, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt urging watchfulness and quick action on the American side. Albert later talked about this letter as his biggest mistake. In the later years of his life, he lacked the big breakthrough he had earlier, his attempts to make a unified field theory were immediately but politely critized by most physicists as untenable. But he spent a lot of time trying to bring harmony to the World. Albert died April 18, 1955 in the age of 76 in his sleep in Princeton hospital. Albert Einstein established himself as a giant of science.