Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany. He grew up with his parents whose names were Herman and Pauline. His dad was an engineer. When he was a child, he was not very smart, in fact his parents thought that he was mentally retarded, so his family moved to Milan, Italy in 1895, but they didn’t take him because they wanted him to finish school. But instead of that, he stopped going to school and studied math and science on his own. He went to Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich in 1896. He had a job there at the Swiss Patient Office that was in Bern. In 1903 he married Mileva Maric and divorced her in 1919, then he married his cousin, whose name was Elsa Einstein Lawenthal, and had 3 kids whose names were Albert, Hans, and Edward, and his wife died in 1936. After that, in 1905 he went to University of Zurich and discovered the existence of molecules and lights dual nature as a wave by his special Theory of Relativity. Then after that He became a professor and he taught physics at the University of Zurich and at Czechoslovakia. In 1914 he became professor at the University of Berlin and the director at Kaiser William institute of Physics and he made the Theory of Relativity while he was there. In 1921 he won the Nobel Prize and many other awards. He left Germany in 1933, and then he moved to Princeton, New Jersey and taught at the Institute for advanced studies, until he retired in 1945. He wanted president FDR to make the atomic bomb, which he was working on for pretty much the rest of his life. He couldn’t finish making this because he died of ruptured aorta, in his house, on April 18, 1955 and he was 76 years old.

1st influence:

I think Albert Einstein is the greatest American because he is very smart, but when he was little he was not smart at all. And I think it’s amazing because he quit school at a young age, while he studied math and science on his own. He also was a professor, won many prizes for being so smart, wrote 3 papers that were about nature of particle movement, and even wrote a book called The World as I See It.

2nd influence:



Another reason I think Albert Einstein was the greatest American is because he made so many great scientific discoveries. Like he created the Theory of Relativity. He also really wanted President Franklin D. Roosevelt to make the atomic bomb, which Einstein was working on for pretty much the rest of his life; he couldn’t finish making it though, because he died. I really think it’s awesome for someone to be that smart and make things like that.

Fun Facts:


Some things that Albert liked to do was playing the violin and sailing.
Here is a list of all of the prizes he got:
Nobel Prize in physics: 1921, Named 1st honorary citizen of tel Aviv: 1923, Copley Medal, Royal Society of London: 1925, Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society, London: 1926, Franklin Institute Medal: 1935, offered presidency of Israel but declined: 1952, got honorary degrees from Universities of Geneva, Zurich, Restock, Madrid, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, New York State, and Yeshiva.
Here are some jobs he had:
Theoretical Physicist, peace activist and writer, a teacher at Winterthur tech school: 1901,Swiss Patient office, Bern, Switzerland, technical assistant: 1902-1909, University of Bern, Bern lecturer: 1908-1909, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, associate professor of physics: 1909-1911, German University Prague, Czechoslovakia, professor of physics: 1911-1912, Swiss federal institute of technology, Zurich professor of physics: 1912-1914, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, professor of physics: 1914-c-1932, Kaiser Wincer Institute for physics, Berlin, Director: 1914-c-1932, Institute for advanced study, Princeton, New Jersey, p[professor of theoretical physics: 1933-1945, life member: 1933-1955, Herbert Spencer lecturer at Oxford University: 1933, participated in the world government movement.

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