Albert Einstein
Einstein was a German/American physicist who contributed more to the
20th century vision of physical reality than any other scientist. Einstein's
theory of RELATIVITY seemed to a lot of people to be pure human thought, as did
his other theories.
LIFE
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Einstein's
parents were nonobservant Jews. They moved to Munich from Ulm when Einstein was
an infant. The family business was to manufacture electrical equipment. When
the business failed in 1894, the family move to Milan, Italy. He decided to
officially give up his German citizenship. With in a year, still not having
completed secondary school, he failed and examination that allow him to follow
studies that would lead to a diploma in electrical engineering at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (the Zurich Polytechnic). He spent the following
year in Aarau where there were excellent teachers and an excellent physics
facility. In 1896......
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