A Truly Beautiful Mind

• INTRO

  
  

  Name - Albert Einstein

  Birthday - 14 March (1879-1955)

  Birth Place - Ulm, Germany
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  Mother - "He's a freak, too big of a head, weirdo. "

  Playmates- "BROTHER BORING"

  Headmaster to Father - "Don't matter what he do, he'll never make a success in anything..."
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  CHILDHOOD

  • Albert didn't speak until the age of 2, but when he did he spoke twice
  • He learned violin at 6 because of his Mom. Became a amateur violonist.

  HIGHSCHOOL

  • Munich (moved there when he was 15 months old)
  • Scored good in almost every subject (topper fr)
  • At the age of 15, he felt stifiled (suffocated) by the school's regimentation(strict, not liberal enough fr).
  • He left it for gooood
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  HIGHSCHOOL

  • His parents moved to Milan and left a 14 year old with their old relatives.
  • He then later continued his studies in german-speaking country Switzerland in a liberal city.
  • He was AMAZING&HIGHLY-GIFTED in Mathematics and Science(PHYSICS).
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  COLLEGE

  • He studied at a university in Zurich.
  • He met Mileva Maric and fell in LoOVE
  • She was smart and 3 years older.
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  MARRIAGE LIFE

  • 1903, January - Married Mileva Maric
  • Had 2 sons
  • 1919 - Divorced because Mileva wasn't able to pursue her dreams and felt suffocated.
  • In the same year, Albert married his cousin Elsa who supported him throughout his success.

  
  

  Mother - "I didn't like Mileva. She's three years older than Albert, that's a NAUR for me..."
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  ADULTHOOD

  • 1902 - At the age of 21, Secured as a technical expert at the patent office in Bern.
  • He jokingly called his desk drawer at work "THE BUREAU OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS "
  • 1905 - One of the most famous papers of that time was his, "Special Theory of Relativity" according to which time and distance are not absolute
  • His Famous Formula - E = mc2
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  SUCCESS

  • 1915 - Einstein began to rise to world fame. He published his General Theory of Relativity, which provided a new interpretation of gravity.
  • In 1919 - an eclipse of the sun brought proof that his theory was accurate.
  • The newspaper proclaimed his work as "a scientific revolution".
  • 1921 - He received the Nobel Peace Prize for Physics.
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  THE BOMB

  • 1933 - The Nazis came to power in Germany and Einstein emigrated to the US.
  • Five years later the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American Physicists in an uproar.
  • Albert feared that the Nazis could build and use an atomic bomb
  • 2 August 1939 - Albert wrote a letter to the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning him about the atomic bomb's effects.
  • August 1945 - Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Who did Albert write a letter to on 2 August 1939?

  The American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Who did Albert write a letter to on 2 August 1939?

  The American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt
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  WORLD CITIZEN

  • He next wrote to the United Nations about creating a World Government. But it had no effect.
  • Over the next decade, he got involved in more politics to campaign for Peace and Democracy.
  • 1955 - When Albert Einstein died at the age of 76, he was celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius.