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I AM ALBERT EINSTEIN Samuel Cosentino
I was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire on March 14, 1879
I grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Munich, which was my reason for later leaving Germany
I had a trouble with my speech until the age of nine
I had problems with spelling, and my mother believed I was border-lined mentally handicapped
I published my first scientific work “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields" in 1894, when I was just 15 years old.
On December 1932, a month before Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, I made the decision to immigrate the United States due to the Nazi’s view and treatment of Jews
In 1935 my wife dies of heart and kidney complications
I took a position at the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
I was received well by my fellow colleagues in the United States due to my previous recognition as a brilliant physicist
I never again returned to Germany
I died on April 18, 1955 due to cardiac arrest
Throughout my life I held citizenship in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States.
CONTRIBUTIONS
I contributed the Photon Theory and the Quantum Theory
I also contributed both the Special and General Theories of Relativity
I was a member of the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb
We had a baby in 1902 and we named her Lieserl
I married Mileva Maric in January 1903
Lieserl died later in 1903
Family
In May 1904 we gave birth to our first son and named him Hans Albert Einstein
Me and Mileva Maric divorced February 19,1919
I remarried Elsa Lowenthal on June 2,1919 my 2nd cousin
Family
Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein
My Quotes
CREDITS
www.nobelprize.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
www.google.com