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Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany to Hermann Einstein and Pauline Einstein. His father was salesman and an engineer.
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The family moves to Munich, Germany where his father and uncle founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie. It was a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current.
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He receives his first magnetic compass. He was fascinated because wherever he moves the needle points the same way. This inspired him to investigate mysteries of the world.
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His family does not observe Jewish religion. He goes to a Catholic elementary school.
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Albert’s family moves to Milan, Italy, but Albert stays
in Munich to finish school. He quits school at the end
of the year and joins his family in Italy -
Albert moves to Aarau, Switzerland, hoping to enter
the Federal Polytechnical Institute in Zurich. At age
16, writes his first scientific essay, “On the Investigation of the State of Ether in a Magnetic Field.” -
In the fall, Albert graduates from the Aarau school in
Switzerland, enabling him to enter the Federal Polytechnical Institute in Zurich. -
Albert meets Mileva Maric, whom he will later
marry. -
Albert graduates from the Polytechnical Institute.
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Albert becomes a Swiss citizen.
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Albert starts work at the Swiss Patent Office in
Bern. He and Mileva have a daughter, Lieserl, who
is believed to have tragically died a year later from
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Albert’s father, Hermann, dies in Milan, Italy.
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Marries Mileva Maric.
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Albert’s son Hans Albert is born.
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Albert is promoted to technical expert, second class,
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Albert has the “happiest thought of my life”—that
gravity and acceleration are the same—allowing him
to develop the theory of general relativity -
Albert becomes a lecturer at the University of Bern in
Switzerland. -
Albert is appointed extraordinary professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich.
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Albert is appointed director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the German University of Prague.
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Albert accepts an appointment as professor at University of Berlin and moves to Germany.
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Albert receives the Nobel Prize in physics.
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Abert goes on world tour to support Zionism. He
makes first trip to the United States with Chaim Weizmann on a fund-raising tour on behalf of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. -
Albert Einstein dies in Princeton as a result of a ruptured aorta.
