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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm,Germany on March 14, 1879.
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He saw when he was five years old a magnetic compass.
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The Einstein family moved from Germany to Italy in search of better work.
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He graduated in 1900, obtaining the title of professor of mathematics and physics.
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Unable to find any work as a teacher or academic, Albert Einstein took a job as a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office.
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Einstein published a remarkable consequence of the special theory of relativity: if a body emits a certain amount of energy, then its mass must decrease by a proportionate amount.
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He was hired at University of Bern as a teacher and conferencist (Privatdozent).
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Einstein presented a series of lectures at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in which he described the theory of general relativity.
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Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, first published in 1905.
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Albert Einstein and his family, fearing anti-Semitic persecution, flee from Nazi Germany to resettle in the United States.
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Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to launch an American program of nuclear research.
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Albert Einstein died of heart failure at the age of 76.
