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Learn About Albert Einstein's Life, Tue, Nov 08 2022

We all know Albert Einstein was a genius, but did you know this?

Little Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Württemberg, Germany. Six weeks after his birth, his family moved to Munich, where he started to go to school. Einstein continued his education in Italy and Switzerland, where he accepted a job offer in the Swiss Patent Office in 1901. After that, he worked as a professor at various colleges in Europe from 1909 to 1933, when he renounced his German citizenship due to political reasons. Einstein moved to America to work as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton University. He became a citizen of the United States in 1940 and left his post in 1945. One fun fact many people didn’t know was that Einstein was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel, which he declined! But when you hear Einstein, what do you think of? Most likely his famous scientific work like the Theory of Relativity or his theory of the Brownian Movement, but he published many works (not just scientific ones!). His work includes: Special Theory of Relativity (1905), Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement (1926), and The Evolution of Physics (1938). But perhaps his most important ones weren’t scientific inquiries, they were relative to what was going on in the world at the time (World War 2): About Zionism (1930), Why War? (1933), My Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950). In 1903, he married Mileva Maric, with whom he had one girl and two boys; their marriage was dissolved in 1919, and he married his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, in the same year, who died in 1936. Einstein's skills led to him spending most of his time in intellectual seclusion, and music played a significant role in his life as a kind of relaxation. On April 18, 1955, he died in Princeton, New Jersey.

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