ALBERT EINSTEIN

BY RHYS NICHOLL

* Albert Einstein didn't fail math as a child.

* No one knows what happened to his first daughter,

* It took Albert Einstein nine years to get a job in academia.

* He offered his wife his Nobel Prize as part of their divorce settlement.

* A solar eclipse helped make Albert Einstein world famous.

Albert Einstein is famous for the discovery of the theory relativity which greatly helped our understanding of space. Albert was considered a top physicist and some would say he was ahead of his time. Here are some pictures of Albert Einstein.

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* BORN : 14th March 1879

* WHERE : Germany, Ulm

* DIED : 18th April 1955

* PROFESSION: Theoretical Physicist

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He attended school as a young boy, he also received instruction at home on Judaism and violin. When he was twelve he had taught himself geometry. At the age of sixteen he failed an exam in order to qualify to train as an electrical engineer.

* Albert Einstein Gymnasium 1888-1894

* Albert-Einstein-Haus Alte Kantonsschule Aarau 1896-1896

* ETH Zurich 1896-1900

* University of Zurich 1905

Albert Einstein is a very successful man for being intelligent and devoted. One character trait of Albert Einstein that he couldn't have become so successful without him being so inquisitive. When he was at school he was always bored out of his mind because the lessons were always too easy and boring.

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* Nobel prize in physics 1921

*Copley Medal 1925

*Matteucci Medal 1921

*Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1926

*Max Planck Medal 1929

*Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science 1920

*Franklin Madel 1935