Albert Einstein is known all over the world as a brilliant theoretical physicist and the founder of the theory of relativity. 1. Some of his ideas made possible the atomic bomb, as well as television and other inventions.
He was born in 1879 in a small German town. 2. Neither his parents nor his schoolteachers thought much of his mental abilities. His uncle often joked; “Not everybody is born to become a professor.”
In 1895 Albert failed the entrance examination to a technical college in Zurich. 3. After graduating the college, Einstein started to work at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. In 1905 he wrote a short article in a science magazine. 4. Later he became a professor in several European Universities and in 1914 moved to Berlin as a member of Prussian Academy of Sciences. After ten years of hard work he created his “General Theory of Relativity.” In 1921 Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics. A Jew, and the pacifist, he was attacked by the Nazis and when Hitler came to power in t1933 he decided to settle in the United States. In 1939 Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, at the request of several prominent physicists, outlining the military potential of nuclear energy and the dangers of Nazis lead in this field. His letter greatly influenced the decision to build an atomic bomb, though he took no part in Manhattan Project. After the war he spoke out passionately against nuclear weapons and repression. Einstein died in 1955. 5.