Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

              Albert Einstein was considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest of all time. His discoveries and his theories have greatly influenced science in many fields.

Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, a small town in Germany. His father was Hermann Einstein, he is a salesman and an engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein. As a boy, he was slow to learn to talk, but later in his childhood, he showed great curiosity about nature and about ability to solve difficult mathematical problems. When he was twelve years old, he learned Euclidean geometry, which had a great influence on his success. In 1894, his whole family moved to Pavia and Einstein stayed in Munich to finish his studies at the Luitpold Gymnasium. After he left school, he went to Switzerland, where he graduated from university with a degree in mathematics. In 1905, Einstein began to publish a series of papers which shook the whole scientific and intellectual world. He was the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921 and for the theories he established in the papers. Because Einstein was Jewish, when Hitler took over Germany in 1933, he had to  leave the country and finally settled in the United States. There he continued his study on the structure of the universe until his death in 1955.

Einstein loved music and peace, he opposed wars. He was casual and not eager in fame and wealth. Among the several important discoveries Einstein made in his life, the greatest is the creation of his famous Theory of Relativity.

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