in Ulm Wurtternburg, Germany.

mother Pauline and younger sister. She

was two years younger than Einstein. Her name

was Maria, but she went by Maja. His father 

was a salesman and a engineer

who started a manufactoring company

for electrical equipment. His mother stayed at

home with the children. As a child, Einstein took

music lessons in both violin and piano. In 1894, 

Einstein's father made a mistake in his company 

and had to move his family to Italy. Einstein stayed 

in Germany to finish out boarding school, 

however he was lonely and soon left the school 

and joined his family.  After he Italy, he 

moved to Switzerland to finish his schooling.

studies, however he was slow in learning to speak.

He especially excelled in math and science. Although

his parents were Jewish, he began his schooling in

the Catholic Elementary School. He then transferred

to Luitpold Gymansium where he stayed until he was

15. In 1889,  the Einstein family  had Max Talmud,

 a polish medical student over for dinner

every Thursday night. He became Einstein's

informal tutor for higher math and philosphy. He did not 

ever complete high school. Instead, he went straight to

taking the entrance exam for a university.

remembers as a child that could have swayed his

mathematical career. At the age of 5, Einstein

was interested in the force that turned the needle

of a compass and explored it. Then, at age 12, 

Einstein found books on geometry that he recalled 

reading over and over again.

Federal Polytechnic School, although he did not have a high school

diploma. He took the entrance exams and did not score well on them

except for in math and physics where he scored very high. For this

reason, he was admitted to the school. He graduated in 1896 with a

teaching degree.

teaching degree after he graduted. In 1902, 

he  finally found a job with the Swiss Patent 

Office. This started his career, and his 

mathematical  career. In 1905, he earned his 

PHD. This year he also published four 

ground break papers on the photelectric 

effect (light can be changed to electricity,) 

Brownian motion (the movement of particles 

in a fluid,) special relativity, and equivalence 

of matter and energy.  This brought him 

fame in the science world. Also while working 

in the patent office, he was able to read over 

patents for electro-magnetic devices. By 

doing so, it gave him time to think about the 

tramissions of electrical signals, something 

he had been interested in for a few years. 

Here he realized that light traveling at the 

speed of  sound remained constant 

although it contridicted Issac 

Newton's law of motion.

are ever constant. When objects move at a high speed,

mass, weight and time are compressed.The only thing 

that remains the same is the speed of light. This led to

the famous equation E=mc squared. Energy equals mass 

times the speed of light squared. This was the theory

of relativity. This theory was confirmed in 1919 by an astronomer

who observed this theory during the solar eclipse and is one of

the biggest things that made Einstein famous.

made a new prediction that the world

was expanding or contracting. This

contradicted the theory that the world

was static. In 1929 Edwind Hubble, an

astromer, confirmed Einstein's

theory that the world was expanding.

about the efforts of creating an atomic bomb in 

Nazi Germany. At first the president did not think

this was important, but later determined it was

and was slowly created an atomic bomb based on 

what Einstein contributed. He invited Einstein to come 

talk to him  about this weapon. This is believed to be 

when the  atomic bomb project began and became 

known as The Manhattan Project.

quantum theory of light. This theory

said that light exists as photons or

tiny packets of light. He proposed that

we live in a universe full of discrete

pieces of energy and matter.

about light, space and time, we would not have

the technology we have today such as tv, phones,

or computers. All of this technology stems from

Einstein's theories. The television has a sharp image

for us to see due to his Theory of Relativity. Cameras

work due to a sensor that converts light into electricity.

This was written about in Einstein's paper on the Photo-

electric Effect.

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awarded the Copley Model from the Royal Society.

In December of 1932, Einstein decided to leave Germany and move to the  United States. He 

took a position as a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

While working here, he spent his time trying to develop a unified field theory. This theory would

unify the forces ofthe universe in order to counter what was found in quantum physics.

In 1939, Einstein wrote the letter to Roosevelt about the atomic bomb, and Roosevelt invited

 him to to  help start the project later known as the Manhattan Project. During the war, he

helped the U.S.  Navy by evaluating designes for different  weapon systems. He also auctioned

off his writings.

While on vacation in in 1945, he heard about the bomb being dropped on Japan. After he heard

this, he became a part of the international effort to control the bomb. In 1946, he created the

Emergency Cinnuttee if Atinuc Scientist.

After the war, Eisntein became isolated from the physics community. He worked on exploring

other parts of his theory of relativity such as black holes and time travel.

The last few years of his life, he left the public life. He liked to take walks around Princeton and

did not travel very far.

renounced his German citizenship in order to get out of the

military draft. He did not want to go to war.

While attending school, Einstien met his wife. Her name

was Mileva Maric. His parents did not approve of her due

to her Christain background, but he stayed with her

regardless.

In 1902, they had a daughter together named Lieserl. It is

unsure of what happened to this daughter though. She

either died from an illness or was given up for adoption.

In 1903, Einstien and Maric were married and then in May

1904, they had their first son named Hans Albert. His

second son, Eduard, was born in 1910.

Due to Einstein's rising fame, his marriage fell apart. In 1919

Einstein divorced his wife and gave her the money he won

winning the Nobel Prize. He then later married his cousin

Else Lowenthal.

On April 17, 1955 Einstein experienced internal bleeding

and was taken to the University Medical Center at 

Princeton. While here, he refused surgery. He said "I want 

to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.

I have done my share. It is time to go. I will do it elegantly."

He diedon April 18, 1955. He was 76 years old.

By living in this time period, he was able to come up with his own

ideas and theories that contradicted other people's theories.

The war efforts happening during this time  period, also allowed

him to contribute to the creation of the atomic bomb

as well as safety against the atomic bomb.