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The Life of Albert Einstein

By slamb28

  • Born

    Ulm, Germany

  • Younger sister born

    Maria, known as Maja

  • Admitted to the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School

    In Zurich, Switzerland. Lost German citizenship and became stateless.

  • Published first paper

  • First job

    Worked at the Patent Office in Bern, Switzerland

  • Birth of daughter

    Leiserl Maric, died or given up for adoption 1903

  • Married

    Wed Mileva Maric

  • Special Theory of Relativity

  • Photoelectric Effect

  • Becomes a professor

  • Birth of son

    Eduard Einstein

  • Paper on critical opalescence

    Explains why the sky is blue

  • Birth of son

    Hans Albert Einstein

  • General Theory of Relativity

  • Divorced

    From Mileva Maric, separated five years earlier

  • Remarried

    To his cousin Elsa Löwenthal

  • Won Nobel Prize

  • Moved to the US

    AS a result of antisemitic ideas in Germany

  • Began working at Princeton

  • Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox

  • Wife died

  • Signed letter to FDR

    Encouraged development of atomic bomb before Germany

  • US Citizenship

  • Chairman of Emergency Committee for Atomic Scientists

  • Signed Russell-Einstein Manifestoed

    Warning against using nuclear weapons

  • Died

    Princeton, New Jersey of an aortic aneurysm

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