A Truly Beautiful Mind - Albert Einstein

EducationAlbert attended a Catholic elementary school from the age of five for three years. At the age of eight, he was transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium where he received advanced primary and secondary school education until he left Germany seven years later. He went ot high school in Munich and scored good marks in almost all the subjects. Einstein hated the the school`s regimentaton and often clashed with his teacher. Enistein was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics and after finishing school, he decided to study at a university in Zurich.

A Truly Beautiful Mind - Albert Einstein

IntroductionAlbert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879. He was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics and for which he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

Emigration to U.S. in 1933In February 1933 while on a visit to the United States, Einstein decided not to return to Germany due to the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor.[58][59] He visited American universities in early 1933 where he undertook his third two-month visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Albert Einstein at the age of 21.

MarriageEinstein and MilevaMarić married in January 1903. They had 2 children. In Febuary 14, 1919 the couple divorced.Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal on 2 June 1919, after having had a relationship with her since 1912. She was his first cousin maternally and his second cousin paternally.

Albert Einstein and MilevaMarić.

DeathOn April 17, 1955, while working on a speech he was preparing to commemorate Israel's 17th anniversary, Einstein suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm and experienced internal bleeding. He was taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment, but refused surgery, believing that he had lived his life and was content to accept his fate. "I want to go when I want," he stated at the time. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." Einstein died at the university medical center early the next morning April 18, 1955 at the age of 76.

Albert Einstein and Elsa Löwenthal.

Albert Einstein