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On March 14, 1879 Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany to Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Hermann was an engineer and salesman.
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As a child, Einstein starts to ask scientific questions as early as age five when he sees his father's compass.
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Einstein works at a Swiss Patent Office as a clerk because he could not find a different job.
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Albert Einstein marries his girlfriend Mileva Maric whom he meets at the Polytechnic school. She was one of six girls and they lived to read and study together. They had one illegitimate daughter together that they gave up and then had two more children before they divorced.
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Einstein named 1905 his miraculous year ("Annus Mirabilis") because he was able to publish four theoretical papers. One paper first published his formula that talked about e=mc2.
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After teaching in Switzerland, Einstein moves back to Germany and becomes the Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in 1914. This is when his family separates and never lives together again.
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After many years of work, Einstein finishes his paper on the General Theory of Relativity in 1915.
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Einstein divores his first wife on Valentine's Day.
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Einstein experieced his own miracle when a solar eclipse proved his Theory of Relativity and he becomes a celebrity.
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After his divorce, Einstein marries his cousin Elsa Löwenthal. Together they immigrated to the United States where she would die in 1936 from heart and kidney problems.
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Einstein wins the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1921 for the photoelectic effect.
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Einstein escapes Nazi Germany and goes to the United States. In the US, Einstein works at Princeton in the Institute of Advanced Study until he dies.
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After a visit from friends on July 12, 1939 warning about Germany's progress on atomic bombs, Einstein writes a letter to President Roosevelt encouraging research to be started on atomic weapons. Later he regrets writing this letter after he realizes the effects of these atomic weapons.
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In 1940, Einstein decided to become a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.
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Albert Einstein died at age 76 in a Princeton Hospital. Thomas Harvey removed Einstein's brain without permission in hopes of figuring out what made Einstein so smart.
