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1916-1955

Einstein's life between 1907 and 1915

1907-1915

1905

1903

1879-1900

Albert Einstein is one of the most famous, important and respected physicist in the world

Albert EINSTEIN's life

Einstein's childhood

Mileva Malik

The Annus Mirabilis

The general theory of relativity

Rest of Einstein's life

Mileva Marik

In 1903, Einstein marries Meliva Marik who he fell in love with when they were both studying at the ETH.

They just had an illegitimate daughter who they put up for adoption .

Their first son, Hans Albert is born in 1904. They will have two of them.

Einstein's childhood

-Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany to a Jewish family on March 14, 1879.-He settles into a program of self-education at the age of 10 and begins reading as much about science as he can.-Einstein graduates from the Polytechnic in Zurich, Switzerland with a degree in physics.

The general theory of relativity

In 1907, Einstein starts to think about adding gravity to his already existent special theory of relativity. It became a new theory which he called the general theory of relativity.

He begins a love affair in 1912 with his divorced cousin Elsa Löwenthal who lives in Berlin.

In November 1915 he finishes his work on the general theory of relativity and presents it in a 4-part speech at the Prussian Academy of Sciences. On December 18 he is elected as a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Göttingen.

The great mathematician David Hilbert tried to race Einstein into resolving the equation of the general theory of relativity, which only motivated Einstein to finish it before him.

The Annus Mirabilis

Einstein publishes four groundbreaking works in the “Annalen der Physik”, which revolutionize the basics of physics. It allowed the great physicist Max Plank to notice him.

In his first paper Einstein explains photoelectric effect to demonstrate the existence of quanta. He says that light is made up of particles called photons, and these photons can eject electrons from metal surfaces which demonstrates that light has both wave and particle properties.

One of the paper contains the special theory of relativity. It is an explanation of how speed affects mass, time and space and is defined by E = mc^2.

The rest of Einstein's life

In 1919 Einstein divorces Mileva and marries Elsa Löwenthal. On May 29, a solar eclipse provides proof of the general theory of relativity. He is supported by the english astrophysicist Arthur Eddington despite the beginning of World War I.

He is awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1922

As a Jew, he moves to America in 1933 to escape the upcoming War. He continues to write and come up with new theories.

In 1939, he writes a famous letter to President Franklin Roosevelt not long after the start of World War II that warns of the possibility of Germany's building an atomic bomb and urges nuclear research.

He dies of heart failure on April 18, 1955