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Albert Einstein
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Lived 1879 – 1955.

Born in: Ulm, Germany

Born on: March 14, 1879
Died in: Princeton, NJ, USA
Died on: April 18, 1955
Age at Death: 76
Nationality: German
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
 His father was Hermann Einstein and he was both an engineer

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and a salesman. His mother was Pauline Einstein.
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He married Mileva Maric in 1903 and they had a daughter and

two sons; their marriage was dissolved in 1919 and in the same
year he married his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, who died in 1936.
 Einstein was not talkative in his childhood, and until the age of three
he hardly talked at all. He spent his teenage years in Munich, where
his family had an electric equipment business. As a teenager, he was
interested in nature and showed a high level of ability in mathematics
and physics.

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Einstein loved to be creative and innovative. He loathed the
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uncreative spirit in his school at Munich. His family’s business failed

when he was aged 15, and they moved to Milan, Italy. Aged 16, he
moved to Switzerland, where he finished high school.

In 1896 he enrolled for a science degree at the Swiss Federal

Institute of Technology in Zurich. He didn’t like the teaching
methods there, so he bunked classes to carry out experiments in
the physics laboratory or play his violin. With the help of his
classmates’ notes, he passed his exams; he graduated in 1900.
  Einstein’s gifts inevitably resulted in his dwelling much in
intellectual solitude and, for relaxation, music played an
important part in his life.

 In 1903, Einstein married fellow physics professor Mileva Maric (at

a time when female physics students were rare enough that she
was the only one in her class). They’d had a daughter out of

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wedlock the year before after a long romantic correspondence

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beginning in 1897. Still, by 1912, Einstein strayed in a rather
unusual direction towards his cousin Elsa, even though he’d only
recently learned of her existence. In 1919 Einstein belatedly
divorced his first wife, even though he’d moved in with Elsa in
1917 while Elsa was still living with her two daughters from a
marriage that had ended in divorce. To add yet another
scandalous layer to the situation, in 1918, Einstein considering
ending his relationship with Elsa in favor of Elsa’s daughter Ilse. As
if to complete some sort of twisted extramarital-affair-themed
game of Bingo, Ilse was at the time working as Einstein’s secretary.
 The Concept Of Rest Energy
Through His Famous Equation
(𝑬 = 𝒎𝒄𝟐 )

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It implied that gravity had the ability to bend light and could be

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used to calculate the amount of energy released or consumed
during nuclear reactions.

The Photoelectric Effect

the emission, or ejection, of electrons from the surface of,
generally, a metal in response to incident light.
(n.d.). The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921. Retrieved from
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1921/einstein/biographical/
(n.d.). Albert Einstein - Celebrity biography, zodiac sign and famous

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https://www.thefamousbirthdays.com/people/albert-einstein

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(2018, September 26). 10 Historical Figures Who Had Incestuous
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who-had-incestuous-marriages.php