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Biography Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955

Albert

Hearing the word “genius”, the picture of Albert Einstein comes up for many people.

Perhaps not only because he gave us the worldwide theory on general relativity, but also because of his honest and poetical way of expressing himself and his political commitments. He had a strong quality about himself, if it depended on his disproportionally large head or his protruding opinions, we’ll never know, but one thing is for sure: he changed the way humanity looks at the world!

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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman who later ran an electrochemical works, and his mother was Pauline.

At his birth, Albert’s mother was reputedly frightened because her infant’s head was so disproportionately large and oddly shaped.

The doctors told his mother that it would diminish and the size of his head appeared to be less remarkable as he grew older.

Though it’s evident from photographs of Einstein that his head was disproportionately large for his body throughout his life.

Another more famous aspect of Einstein’s childhood is the fact that he began to speak much later than the average child. Einstein claimed that he did not begin speaking until the age of three and only did so hesitantly.

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Albert

“It doesn’t matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.”

Albert Einstein’s teacher to his father, 1895.

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Einstein

Because of Einstein’s late speech development and his later childhood tendency to ignore any subject in school that bored him – instead focusing intensely only on what interested him – some observers at the time suggested that he might be “retarded”.

At the insistence of his mother, he was given violin lessons. Though he initially disliked the lessons, and eventually discontinued them, he would later take great solace in classical music.

When Einstein was five, his interest in mathematics was aroused when his father showed him a small pocket compass.

He would later describe the experience as one of the most revelatory events of his life.

Einstein learned alot on his own. Later in school, he clashed with authority and resented the school regimen. He believed that the spirit of learning and creative thought were lost in such endeavors as strict memorization.

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In 1894, his parents moved to Pavia, a city in Italy. Albert remained behind in Munich but quit school a year and a half prior to final examinations without telling his parents.

At the age of 16, he performed the thought experiment known as “Albert Einstein’s mirror”.

After gazing into a mirror, he examined what would happen to his image if he were moving at the speed of light. His conclusion, that the speed of light is independent of the observer, would later become one of the two postulates of special relativity.

In the spring of 1896, Einstein first met his future wife, the Serbian Mileva Mari as they both studied at the Federal Polytechnic Institute at the University of Zürich.

She was the only woman studying that year for the same diploma as Einstein.

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