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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879.
According to his parents, Einstein didn’t even speak until he was four years old!
However, one day at dinner he broke his silence in quite an amusing manner.
He suddenly said “The soup is too hot,” stunning his parents. When they asked why he had never spoken before, the young Einstein explained: “Because up to now, everything was in order.”
He then spoke rarely, until he was almost 10 years old, practicing sentences in his head or under his breath until he got them right.
This would later be known as “Einstein Syndrome,” a condition used to describe exceptionally bright people whose speech is delayed.
Around the late 1880s, Einstein learned how to play the violin, he would play the instrument for the rest of his life. Along with his musical abilities, young Albert Einstein was also quite gifted in mathematics, algebra and physics.
Records show that Einstein was indeed a child prodigy, able to discuss college physics at a high level before he was 11 years old. He also got high marks in Latin and Greek.
While Einstein had a big future ahead of him, his difficulties finding employment in academia should be a lesson to anyone struggling today.
Einstein eventually found that work in a Swiss patent office in 1902 but that wasn’t his destiny. While working at the patent office as a clerk, he was able to take care of his duties relatively easily, using the extra time to further explore his ideas.
The result of his work resulted in the theorems that would later become known as the principle of relativity. In 1905, Einstein had four major physics papers published.
They were published in the Annalen der Physik, one of the premiere physics journals at the time. Two of his papers concerned themselves with the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion, respectively.
The two other papers that he published outlined two other massive contributions to the world of science. The first was his special theory of relativity, and the second paper contained perhaps the most famous equation in the world, E=MC2. Collectively, these papers defined both Einstein’s career and entire discipline of physics.
By November 1915, he had completed the general theory of relativity, and considered it the culmination of his life’s research. General relativity helped provide more accurate predictions of planetary orbits around the sun, and allowed for a more advanced description of gravitational forces.
In 1921, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics, but he didn’t actually win it for the Theory of General Relatively, but instead “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”
In 1903, while still at the Swiss patent office, Einstein married a Serbian physics student named Mileva Maric. The couple had two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein. One became a hydraulic engineer, and the other was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young man.
Einstein’s marriage to Mileva was not a happy one. He demanded that she serve three meals a day, that she stop talking if he asked her to, and to expect no intimacy from him beyond those included in everyday social situations. The two divorced in 1919.
Einstein married his cousin, Elsa, later that same year.
Albert Einstein died in his sleep in 1955, after suffering from a ruptured aneurism.
He had refused surgical treatment, explaining
“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.”
This photo of Einstein was taken in 1884, at the age 5
According to his parents, Einstein didn’t even speak until he was four years old!
However, one day at dinner he broke his silence in quite an amusing manner.
He suddenly said “The soup is too hot,” stunning his parents. When they asked why he had never spoken before, the young Einstein explained: “Because up to now, everything was in order.”
He then spoke rarely, until he was almost 10 years old, practicing sentences in his head or under his breath until he got them right.
This would later be known as “Einstein Syndrome,” a condition used to describe exceptionally bright people whose speech is delayed.
Around the late 1880s, Einstein learned how to play the violin, he would play the instrument for the rest of his life. Along with his musical abilities, young Albert Einstein was also quite gifted in mathematics, algebra and physics.
Records show that Einstein was indeed a child prodigy, able to discuss college physics at a high level before he was 11 years old. He also got high marks in Latin and Greek.
While Einstein had a big future ahead of him, his difficulties finding employment in academia should be a lesson to anyone struggling today.
Einstein eventually found that work in a Swiss patent office in 1902 but that wasn’t his destiny. While working at the patent office as a clerk, he was able to take care of his duties relatively easily, using the extra time to further explore his ideas.
The result of his work resulted in the theorems that would later become known as the principle of relativity. In 1905, Einstein had four major physics papers published.
They were published in the Annalen der Physik, one of the premiere physics journals at the time. Two of his papers concerned themselves with the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion, respectively.
The two other papers that he published outlined two other massive contributions to the world of science. The first was his special theory of relativity, and the second paper contained perhaps the most famous equation in the world, E=MC2. Collectively, these papers defined both Einstein’s career and entire discipline of physics.
By November 1915, he had completed the general theory of relativity, and considered it the culmination of his life’s research. General relativity helped provide more accurate predictions of planetary orbits around the sun, and allowed for a more advanced description of gravitational forces.
In 1921, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics, but he didn’t actually win it for the Theory of General Relatively, but instead “for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.”
In 1903, while still at the Swiss patent office, Einstein married a Serbian physics student named Mileva Maric. The couple had two sons, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard “Tete” Einstein. One became a hydraulic engineer, and the other was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young man.
Einstein’s marriage to Mileva was not a happy one. He demanded that she serve three meals a day, that she stop talking if he asked her to, and to expect no intimacy from him beyond those included in everyday social situations. The two divorced in 1919.
Einstein married his cousin, Elsa, later that same year.
Albert Einstein died in his sleep in 1955, after suffering from a ruptured aneurism.
He had refused surgical treatment, explaining
“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.”
This photo of Einstein was taken in 1884, at the age 5
