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Birth
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany -
family moved to Munich
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When Albert was two and a half years old, his sister Maja was born.
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Sick in bed at the age of four or five, his father had given him a magnetic compass to cheer him up. He found the movement of the compass needle quite mysterious at that age, and it aroused great curiosity in him.
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When Einstein was five, they enrolled him in a Catholic Christian primary school near their home, which they thought provided a better education.
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Albert started violin lessons at the age of six and continued until he was fourteen.
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At the age of nine and a half, Einstein left the Catholic primary school and began studying at the Luitpold Gymnasium.
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A poor Jewish college student named Max Talmud attended dinner once a week. The Talmud's visits began when Einstein was ten and lasted for five years. And they were talking science, math and philosophy together.
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Einstein made a proof of the Pythagorean theorem again.
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At Einstein Polytechnic, he met his future wife, Mileva Marić.
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He told his father that he wanted to renounce his German citizenship and become a Swiss citizen. His father agreed with some hesitation and signed the necessary papers.
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When Albert Einstein started working at the Bern Patent office, Mileva came to him and the couple got married.
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He explained that the principle of indeterminacy means that time and energy cannot be determined simultaneously and accurately, but that this can be shown to be invalid with an experiment
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He divorced his wife in 1919.
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Linus told Pauling: “I made one big mistake in my life. Making the recommendation of the atomic bomb to President Roosevelt. But he still had a reason. The danger that the Germans will do it earlier”.
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The day he died