BIOGRAPHY: early life, family and education
Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March of 1879 on Germany, and he died on the 18th of April of 1955 on New Jersey. He was one of the most important and famous physicist of the 20th century. Besides being German, he also had the American and Swiss nationality.
He moved to Munich in 1880 with his family and later, round to 1890 to Italy after his business lost out on a major contract.
His father Hermann Einstein who was a german electrical engineer and businessman, got married with Pauline Koch on the 8th of August of 1876, which they had two children, Albert Einstein (the oldest) and Maja Einstein. Einstein’s parents were both Jewish. In 1903 he married Mileva Maric and had 3 children, Hans Albert Einstein, Eduard Einstein and Lieserl Einstein which she died at the age of 1. In 1919 he got divorced from Mileva and married Elsa Einstein. Albert died at the University Medical Centre at Princeton in the morning at the age of 76. The day before, he suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm while working on a speech to honor Israel’s seventh anniversary. In the hospital he refused surgery and told them; “I want to go when I want, it is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
Albert learned to speak when he was 3 years old, and everybody though he was retarded; he was unable to speak fluently. He attended elementary school in Munich and he had some social and speech problems although he developed some interest on classical music and learned how to play the violin. Later he also got interested in mathematics at the age of 12 but one of his teachers told him he wouldn’t be good enough. Albert Einstein went to a Catholic school and at the age of 15 he started Algebra, geometry and infinitesimal calculus. He wasn’t good at languages at all but when in science he was the best of his class. In 1885, at the age of 16 he wrote his first scientific essay. He went to several universities like the University of Princeton or the University of Bern but he didn’t went to so it was difficult for him. Although he graduated at the Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich in 1900 as a professor of mathematics and physics he could not have a place at the university so he started a job in Bern. He received his doctorate in 1905 at ETHZ Federal Institute of Technology. In 1914 during the 2nd World War he returns to Germany for a few years. His pacifism and political activities irritated the German nationalists, who made a campaign of discredit against him and his theories.