Albert Einstein Biography

Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. and died April 18, 1955 at University Medical Center at Princeton from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He grew up in a jewish family with his dad, brother and mom. Albert was a lowly patent clerk who went out by himself to test all the theories he had. Once all those theories were tested he came to shock the world. He was also classically trained. Albert had his Ph.D, which he earned from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School.

While in school in Zurich, Albert met a Serbian physics student named Maric. He continued to grow closer to her, but his parents were against the relationship because her ethnic background. However, he continued to see her, with the two sending letters to each other in which Albert expressed many of his scientific ideas. His father passed away in 1902, and the Maric and Albert married each other.

During the same year the couple had a daughter, Lieserl, who might have been later raised by Maric's relatives or given up for adoption, no one knows what happened to her. Maric and Albert later had two sons, Hans and Eduard. The two divorced in 1919. While he was still married to Maric, he had begun an affair with a cousin, Elsa Löwenthal. They both got married in 1919, in the same year of Einstein’s divorce. However, he would continue to see other women throughout his second marriage.

He discovered many things like his Theory of Relativity, mass energy equivalence, and the law of the Photoelectric Effect. In 1921, Albert won a Nobel Prize Award for the explanation of the photoelectric effect. As a physicist, he had tons of discoveries but his most famous the theory of relativity and his equation: E=MC2, which means that little amounts of mass could be made into big amounts of energy. His Theory of Relativity meant that the velocity of light was absolute and all other velocities are relative. He was convinced of the merits of general relativity since it allowed more accurate prediction of planetary orbits around the sun.

After World War II, he worked on his unified field theory and the theory of general relativity. It involved wormholes, the possibility of time travel, black holes and the making of the universe