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He was born in the German city of Ulm, a hundred kilometers east of Stuttgart, in the bosom of a Jewish family. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. Hermann and Pauline had married in 1876,
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He is considered the best-known and most popular scientist of the 20th century.
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In 1880 the family moved to Munich, where it would grow for fourteen years
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It was a difficult period that I would overcome thanks to the violin lessons (from 1884
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in 1894, when Einstein was fifteen years old. A new professor, Dr. Joseph Degenhart, told him that "he would never get anything in life." When Einstein replied that "he had not committed any crime", the teacher replied: "your presence here undermines the respect that the class owes me
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In 1894, the Hermann company suffered significant economic difficulties and the Einsteins moved from Munich to Pavia, in Italy, near Milan. Albert stayed in Munich to finish his courses
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He convinced a teacher to certify his excellence in the field of mathematics. The school authorities let him go. Just after Christmas 1894, Albert left Munich and went to Milan to meet his parents.17
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1896, at the age of sixteen. That same year he renounced his German citizenship
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He obtained the German bachelor's degree in 1896, at the age of sixteen
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theory of special relativity.
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presented the theory of general relativity
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Einstein became a popular icon of world-famous science, a privilege within reach of very few scientists
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he obtained the Nobel Prize in Physics and not for the Theory of Relativity, because the scientist who was entrusted with the task of evaluating it did not understand it, and they feared to run the risk that later he would prove himself wrong.6 7 At that time he was still considered somewhat controversia
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Before the rise of Nazism, Einstein left Germany
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He became an American citizen in 1940. During his last years he worked to integrate gravitational and electromagnetic forces into the same theory
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