Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879. He struggled quite a bit in school, however grew up to be one of the most brilliant men in the history of humanity. Albert suffered from Dyslexia, and was often put down by his peers, and told by his teachers that he would no amount to anything.
Born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, in the German Empire, Einstein was a Jewish-German who overcame his struggles to develop the theory of relativity, and many other breakthroughs in the physics world. He was often regarded as the father of modern physics, and by his death he had published over 300 scientific papers.
At a young age Albert moved to Munich, were his father founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment. As he grew, Einstein build models and mechanical devices for fun, and began to show a talent for mathematics. He was awareded his PhD in 1905, and published four groundbreaking papers in the same year on photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity and the equivalence of matter and energy.
By 1908 he was recognized in the world as a leading scientist. He became a full professor at Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague in 1911. In 1921, we was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Throughout his life, Einstein took the opportunity to travel at first throughout the United States, and then through Asia and Palestine. he took pride in visiting many scientific, intellectual and political figures around the world.
In 1933 with the rise of the Nazis, Einstein emigrated to the United States. He had learned that the new German government had passed a law barring Jews from holding any official positions, including teaching. When the Nazi book burnings began, Einstein's works were among the books being destroyed. Einstein took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he worked until his death.
One great mistake Einstein stated during his lift, was the initiation of the Manhattan Project. Just before World War II broke out, Einstein and a few colleagues who had fled Germany felt it was their responsibility to inform the American government that German scientists were working to build an Atomic Bomb. Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to warn him of this possibility, and to recommend that the U.S. government become involved in uranium research. This letter resulted in the U.S. to enter the race to develop the bomb, and actually became the only country to develop it during WWII.
In 1940, Einstein became an American citizen. On April 18, 1955 he died of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the age of 76.
Throughout his life Einstein made great strides in the formation of modern physics. He struggled with his Learning Disability and overcame the challenges it presented to become one of the most brilliant, successful, and well-known scientist to date.
"A question that sometimes drives me haze: am I or are the others crazy?"~ Albert Einstein
"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new" ~Albert Einstein
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and lots of courage to move in the opposite direction" ~Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school" ~Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their ow eyes and feel with their own hearts" ~Albert Einstein.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
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