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Albert Einstein Biography: Birth, Early Life, Education, Scientific Career, Inventions, Awards, and Honours, Legacy, and More

Albert Einstein Biography: He was a theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity and photoelectric effects. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect. Take a look at his early life, education, inventions, scientific career, awards, honours, and more.

Albert Einstein Biography

Born

14 March 1879

Place of Birth

Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany

Died

18 April 1955

Place of Death

Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Education

Federal polytechnic school in Zurich, University of Zurich (PhD)

Spouse(s)

Mileva Maric (m. 1903; div. 1919)

Elsa Lowenthal (m. 1919, died in 1936)

Children

Lieserl Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein
Eduard Einstein

Awards And Honours

Copley Medal (1925), Nobel Prize (1921)

Subjects of Study

Brownian motion, gravitational wave, light, photon unified field theory

Known for

General relativity

Special relativity

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Einstein’s personal life

Mileva Einstein

Einstein married Mileva Maric on 6 January 1903. They had two sons but their daughter Lieserl died in childhood. At the time of Mileva's death in 1948 her eldest son Hans Albert was a Professor in Hydraulic Engineering at the University of California, Berkley. Mileva Maric, a Serbian mathematician, was Einstein's companion, colleague and confidante whose influence was enormous during Einstein's most creative years.

At the age of 21, Mileva enrolled with the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in 1896, the same year as Einstein, who was three-and-a-half years younger than Mileva. Then, she was the only woman studying in the mathematical section of the School for Mathematics and Science teachers.

Newly married Einstein was working 6 days a week at the Patent Office, and the rest of his time was spent on physics. Mileva tried to cope with the loss of her career and the loss of her daughter. Just before their second wedding anniversary, Marie and Pierre Curie were awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. A stinging reminder

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Albert Einstein: In Brief

In 1879, Albert Einstein was born to a middle-class German Jewish family. His parents were concerned that he scarcely talked until the age of three, but he was not so much a backward as a quiet child. He would build tall houses of cards and hated playing soldier. At the age of twelve, he was fascinated by a geometry book.

1895
At the age of fifteen, Albert quit high school, disgusted by rote learning and martinet teachers, and followed his family to Italy where they had moved their failing electrotechnical business. After half a year of wandering and loafing, he attended a congenial Swiss school. The next year he entered the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

It is almost a miracle that modern teaching methods have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom.

1900
After working hard in the laboratory but skipping lectures, Einstein graduated with an unexceptional record. For two grim years he could find only odd jobs, but he