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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany (Biography.com)
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Albert Einstein married Milena Maric on Jan 6, 1903. The couple continued together for some time before their problematic end and eventually divorce in 1919. Einstein would, in the same year, marry Elsa Lowenthall, his second wife, and they would be together until "Lowenthall's death in 1936" (Biography.com).
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Albert Einstein had, what many would call his surgenence into the academic spotlight, "Miracle Year" in he published four scientific papers. All these papers appeared in "Annalen der Physik", "one of the best known physics journals of the era" (Biography.com). These papers centered on Einstein's work about the photoelectric effect, what would eventually win him his Nobel Prize.
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While the exact date of the completion of Einstein's most famous work is unkown, the fact reamains he completed it in November of 1915. The Theory was not widely accepted at the time as it contradicted an already widely accepted theory about gravity, Isaac Newton's Theory. However, once his work was "affirmed via observations and measurements by British astronomers Sir Frank Dyson and Sir Arthur Eddington during the 1919 solar eclipse" (Biography.com).
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The 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Albert Einstein in November 1921. However, due to him giving a lecture outside the country at the time, he was not officially gifted the award until 1922.
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Albert Einstein and his wife Elsa emmigrated from Germany to the United States. It was after this date that Einstein would never return home to his native land. In his jounrey to America, he took a position at Princeton in their Advanced Science division.
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In a letter that Einstein wrote along with imput from another scientist, he advised President Roosevelt that a new energy source, and potential weapon source, was on the horizon. He warned that it could be weaponized and cause distruction, but that also it would help supply massive energy needs.
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While there are too many dates to narrow down just one, the love life of Albert Einstein was as complicated as his many equations. He had troubled marriages and even saw other women throughout his marriages. His death marked the end of that trouble though, many would say that it only caused more as he still left children. The following video discusses in detail the extent of his troubled relationships.
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April 18 marks the tragic day, in which many consider the day the world lost the most influential physicist Albert Einstein.
