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Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany, the son of Hermann Einstein, a German-Jewish featherbed salesman, and his wife Pauline.
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Albert Einstein marries his longtime girlfriend, Milena Maric.
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A year after marrying Albert, his wife Milena gives birth to the Einsteins' first son, Hans Albert.
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Publishes, at age 26, five groundbreaking papers, making this his "annus mirabilis," or miracle year. One of the papers introduces his special theory of relativity and another E = mc^2
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Albert Einstein's wife Milena gives birth to their second son, Eduard.
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Collapses from exhaustion and falls seriously ill. Nursed back to health by his cousin Elsa Löwenthal. Publishes his first paper on cosmology.
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A solar eclipse provides dramatic observable evidence that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is correct.
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Albert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, first published in 1905.
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These are the days Albert Einstein helped the U.S. create the atomic bomb.
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Albert Einstein dies of heart failure at the age of 76.
