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=My life = I was born in Ulm on March the 14, 1879. My father was Hermann Einstein a salesman and engineer. As a child I had speech difficulties and yet despite this I went to a Catholic elementary school from the age of five until I was ten. Once, my father showed me a compass and I knew that caused the needle to move. As I grew I started to play with and make mechanical devices for fun and I started showing a talent for mathematics. When I finished primary school a man called Max Talmund, who later changed his name to Talmy, introduced me to mathematics, philosophy and science. The Jewish community, we were all Jews, organised Talmy to eat with us on Thursdays every week for 6 years. Throughout those years he introduced and guided me through many educational subjects. In 1894 my fathers company failed and we moved to Milan. Only a few months later my family moved to Pavia. When we moved I was sent to Munich to finish my studies. My father wished me to pursue his path, electrical engineering. But alas I did not agree with their teaching methods and so got sent home to Pavia by using a doctors note. I immediately applied to ETH but because I did not have a Matura certificate I had to take the entry exam. I failed. Despite that I got exceptional scores in physics and mathematics. My parents sent me to Aarau in Switzerland to finish secondary school. While I was there I stayed with the Winterler family and fell in love with their daughter, Marie. At the age of 17, with my fathers permission, I renounced my citizenship in Germany so that I did not have to participate in the army. In 1896 I enrolled for a 4 year teaching post in the Polytechnic in Zurich teaching mathematics and physics. Marie moved to Switzerland. My future wife Mileva also enrolled in the same year. We studied together and our relationship turned into romance. I got the teaching diploma while she failed with a bad grade in mathematics. After graduating I spent 2 frustrating years searching for a job. A former classmates father helped get me a job in Bern. During those 2 years my wife had a daughter called Lierserl. My job was at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property. In 1903 my job became permanent. In 1904 we had a son called Hanserl. My second son was born in 1910 who's name was Eduard. In 1914 I moved to Berlin. I divorced my wife in 1919 after have an affair with a woman called Elsa for 7 years. In 1933 we moved to the USA permanently. In 1935 Elsa was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems and then passed away in 1936. =My Accomplishments = In 1901 I had a paper on capillary forces published. Then in 1905 I had a thesis published called "A new determination of Molecule Dimensions". I was awarded a PHD by the University of Zurich. On that same year, a year they call "My Miracle Year" I released 4 papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of matter and energy which would bring notice to the academic world about me. By 1908 the world had recognized me as a leading scientist. I became a lecturer at the University of Berne. The following year I quit I patent office and lecturer position and became a docent at the University of Zurich. In 1911 I became a full professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague. During that year I hypothesized that the light from another star would be bent by the gravity of the sun. In 1914 I returned to Germany after being appointed directer for the Kaiser Wilhelm institute and a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a special clause that freed me from most of my teaching obligations. I then became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1916 I was appointed President of the German Physical Society. Then in 1919 on an expedition led by Sir Arthur Eddington my claims about light bending were proved true. In 1921 I won the Nobel Prize in physics and the Copley Medal in 1925. If I never appeared or followed my father maybe civilisation wouldn't be the same. Germany maybe would have finished the bomb. The world would be in disaster, all Jews dead, the Nazi's in control it's horrible to think about. =** My Travels ** = I visited New York City for the first time on 1921. That was the beginning of my travels. In 1992 I traveled Asia including countries like Singapore, Sri Lanka and Japan. In Japan my first lecture was in Tokyo where I met the Emperor and Empress in which thousands came to watch. On my way back I visited Palestine for 12 days where I had a cannon greeting. =** Emigration to the USA ** = In 1933 I was compelled to move to the USA due to the rise of the Nazi's. I was a Jew after all. When visiting some libraries I found out that there was a new German law stopping any Jew being in an official position. Shortly after the book burning occurred my books being among them. Even later I found that my name had a $5000 bounty on my head. I then took up a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?source=s_q&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&radius=0.33&split=1&rq=1&ev=zi&num=10&msa=0&msid=110740397453532707962.0004932c67d38a03c818f&ll=40.343277,-74.666981&spn=0.002862,0.00456&z=17&output=embed" width="425" height="350" align="center"

=** //Einsteins House in Princeton//  ** = = = = = = = =** World War II ** = In 1939 I had to write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt telling him that he had to beat Germany at creating the atom bomb. He heeded the advice after 3 tries and joined the "Atom Bomb" race. The USA became the only country to create the atom bomb during WW2. = Finally =

After the death of the Israeli president I got offered to be the next president and I politely Declined. = =

Learner Profiles   Caring: I showed compassion to my fellow Jews and excepted who I was   Balanced: I tried different subjects, had time for my kids and helped the world   Risk Taker & Thinker & Inquirer: I tried ways people hadn't before and questioned concepts   Reflective: My only regret is that I helped with destruction but I was justified. what the Nazi's would have done would have been worse  Knowledgeable: I have a PHD, am called the greatest mind of all time and I read a lot   Principled: I told the USA about the bomb because that was what I think was right. Communicators: I talked, wrote books, sent letters and lectured. Open-Minded: I was always open to suggestion and I had assistants to help me and I always thought about the opinions. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Bibliography = Works Cited 1908, By. "Albert Einstein." __Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia__. 02 Nov. 2010 . "Albert Einstein - Biography." __Nobelprize.org__. 02 Nov. 2010 . "Biography of Albert Einstein - biography, autobiography & memoir resources." __Biography, Autobiography & Memoir resources at BiographyShelf.com__. 02 Nov. 2010 . = By Alfie  =