Albert Einstein was one of the greatest scientists of all time. He was was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg,Germany.When Einstein was five his father showed him a pocket compass. Little Einstein was overwhelmed by the behavior of the compass's needle. Einsstein attended public school in Munich and in Auru, Switzerland. He then studied mathematics and physics at the Swiss Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, graduating in 1900. From 1902 until 1909 he worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. While this job had little to do with physics or math, it gave him two things. First, he got to see some of the important inventions of the day; second, he had plenty of free time, which he spent in scientific investigations. During this time Einstein made three of his greatest contributions to scientific knowledge. dIn 1905, Einstein contributed three separate papers to Annalen der Physik (Annals of Physics), a German scientific periodical. Each of the three became the......
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