Summary

     Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in the German City of Elm. He had no signs of greatness. His mother thought that he was a freak. When he learned to speak he spoke everything twice. He was boring for other children. So he played by himself much of the time He loved mechanical toys. Looking at his newborn sister, Maja, he asked where her wheels were A headmaster told his father that Einstein would never make a success at anything. Einstein began playing at the age of six. Later he became a gifted violinist. albert Einstein was not a bad pupil. He joined a high school in Munich. He scored good marks in every subject. He clashed with his teachers. He did not like strict discipline and order in schools. He left school for good at the age of 15.

    A year before his parents had moved to Milan. They left him with relatives. He was able to continue his education in Switzerland. Einstein was highly gifted in mathematics. He was interested in physics also He decided to study at a University in Zurich. He had a special interest in a fellow student. Her name was Mileva Marie She was a clever creature'. She was a Serb. The university in Zurich was one of the few universities in Europe where women could get degrees. Therefore, she had come to Switzerland The couple fell in love. However, their love was expressed in science. At the age of 21, Albert Einstein got his university degree. He also got a job. He became a technical expert in the patent office in Bern in 1920. He was also actually developing his own ideas in secret. He called his desk as the 'bureau of theoretical physics'.

    One of the famous papers of 1905 was Einstein's 'Special Theory of Relativity'. According to it time and distance are not absolute. For example, two perfectly accurate clocks will not show the same time if they come together after a journey. From this followed the world's most famous formula. It describes the relationship between mass and energy, E= me^2 (E stands for energy, m for mass and c for the speed of light in a vacuum which is about 300,000 km/s.) Einstein was solving the most difficult problems in physics. His private life was starting to fail He wanted to marry Mileva. aut his mother was against it. She thought Mileva was too old for him. She was three years older than him. She was also bothered by Mileva's intelligence.

    The pair finally married in January 1903. They had two sons. But a few years later, the marriage failed. The couple finally divorced in 1919. Einstein married his cousin Elsa the same year. Einstein's new chapter brought him world fame. In 1915 he had published his 'General Theory of Relativity'. An eclipse of the sun in 1919 proved its accuracy The newspapers called his work as a scientific revolution. He received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1 921 He received honorus and invitations from all over the world after that. The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 Einstein emigrated to the United States. Five years later, nuclear fission was discovered by the Nazis in Berlin. It upset the American physicists. They were afraid that the Nazis would build and use an atomic bomb. Einstein wrote a letter to the American President Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. In it, he warned that a single bomb of this type might destroy the whole part It bore fruit. The Americans developed the atomic bomb in secret They dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction. This time he wrote a public letter to the United Nations. In it, he proposed the formation of a world government. aut this did not prove effective. Einstein in the next decade involved himself in politics. He wanted to bring an end to the arms buildup. He worked for peace and democracy. Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. He was celebrated as a visionary and a world citizen.