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Albert was born in Wurttemburg, Germany to Herbertt and Pauline Einstein
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He dropped out of traditional school to move with his family to Italy and pursue more creative education. Pictured with his sister in Italy.
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Enters Polytechnic in Zurich, Germany to study mathematics and physics. This is where he meets his first wife, Maric (pictured).
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Graduates from Polytechnic, gains Swiss citizenship, and begins work at Swiss Patent Office.
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Marriage to Mileva Maric produced three children-Lieserl (1902), Hans (1904), and Eduard (1910).
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While working at Swiss Patent Office and in his spare time, Einstein did much of his most important work.
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Einstein moves to Berlin and becomes a German citizen. He becomes a member of Prussian Academy of Sciences, a Professor at the University of Berlin, and director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics, later called Max Planck Institute of Physics. Pictured with German Chemist and Nobel Prize winner Fritz Haber.
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Einstein divorced his first wife
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Einstein's second marriage was to his first cousin Elsa
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Albert Einsteins second marriage was to his first cousin, Elsa. They did not have children of their own, but raised her two children from her first marriage.
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Einstein wins his first Nobel Prize in Physics and makes his first visit to the United States, pictured in New York City.
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Einstein becomes head of the Kaiser Institute. But, after Hitler comes to power, renounces German citizenship and moves to United States. He joins the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton.
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Einstein wrote a letter to FDR encouraging him to develop an atomic bomb before Germany, influencing him to finance the Manhattan Project.
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also maintains Swedish Citizenship
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Einstein leads the new organization which works for international control of nuclear energy.
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but turned it down. Pictured in Israel with David Ben Gurion, founder and first prime minister of the State of Israel.
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