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he was born in Ulm, which is in southern Germany
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graduated high school in Aarau, Switzerland
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married a girl named Mileva; however, they already had their first child in 1902
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earned his Ph.D in Physics by submitting a dissertation to the Univeristy of Zurich
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annus mirabilis is Latin for "year of marvels"
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He explained that the photoelectric effect occurs due to light coming in chunks of energy called quanta.
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Einstein's paper on the General Theory of Relativity made him world-famous.
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He received the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his paper on the photoelectric effect.
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Einstein traveled to the United States to lecture at the California Institute of Technology
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He died in Princeton on April 18, 1955
