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Albert Einstein Biography
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Biography: Life of Albert Einstein
Born 1879, Died 1955
Albert Einstein was born of Jewish parents on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. Einstein attended elementary school in Munich. He enjoyed music and playing the violin. Although Einstein was only an average student, he was a great thinker and taught himself analytical geometry and calculus. Einstein attended high school in Aarau, Switzerland and technical college in Zurich.
Albert Einstein began working as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902. In 1905 he published his “Special Theory of Relativity”, which included the expression of the relationship between mass and energy. Einstein was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Zurich for this work. Based on his concepts of relativity, he offered theoretical answers to problems in astronomy, which were later proved by observations. In 1915 Albert Einstein published his “General Theory of Relativity”.
In 1914 Albert Einstein returned to Germany to become a professor at the Prussian Academy of Science. He was also the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Theoretical Physics. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.
With the rise of the Nazis to power, Einstein left Germany. In 1933 Einstein moved to the United States. Albert Einstein became an American citizen in 1940.
From 1929 on Einstein worked on his unified field theory wherein all phenomena of the physical universe were explained by one basic set of mathematical equations.
Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955.
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