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Albert Einstein

By Sara.Mahmoud

  • Birth of Einstein

    Born in in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire.

  • Move to Munich

  • Started school

  • Transferred schools

  • Fail of Father's Company

  • Left Germany

  • attended the Argovian cantonal school

  • entrance examinations for the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zürich

  • renounced his citizenship in the German Kingdom of Württemberg

  • he passed the Swiss Matura

  • Einstein was awarded the Zürich Polytechnic teaching diploma

  • his paper "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Conclusions from the Capillarity Phenomena") was published in the prestigious Annalen der Physik

  • Einstein and Marić married

  • the couple's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Bern, Switzerland

  • instein completed his thesis, with Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Experimental Physics, serving as pro-forma advisor

  • MIRACLE YEAR

  • Einstein was appointed associate professor

  • Their second son, Eduard, was born in Zürich

  • Einstein became a full professor at the German Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague

  • he returned to his alma mater in Zürich

  • Relationship with Elsa Löwenthal

  • the couple separated

  • he returned to the German Empire after being appointed director

  • Einstein completed the general theory of relativity

  • he was appointed president of the German Physical Society

  • They divorced

  • Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal

  • Einstein was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS)

  • Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics

  • He also received the Copley Medal from the Royal Society

  • they emigrated to the United States

  • Einstein took on a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey

  • Elsa Einstein was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems

  • Einstein was granted permanent residency in his adopted country and became an American citizen a few years later

  • she died

  • Einstein and fellow physicist Leo Szilard wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to alert him of the possibility of a Nazi bomb and to galvanize the United States to create its own nuclear weapons

  • Lincoln University speech

    He corresponded with scholar/activist W.E.B. Du Bois as well as performing artist Paul Robeson and campaigned for civil rights, calling racism a "disease"

  • Death of Einstein

    Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey.

  • he was working on a speech to honor Israel's seventh anniversary, Einstein suffered an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was taken to the University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment but refused surgery