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Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein. Rachael Werbowski. Einstein’s Background. Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879. Albert had died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey . His family was a secular, middle-class Jewish family. . What did Einstein Study?.

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Albert Einstein

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  1. Albert Einstein Rachael Werbowski

  2. Einstein’s Background • Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879. • Albert had died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey. • His family was a secular, middle-class Jewish family.

  3. What did Einstein Study? • Albert had mostly studied Physics, along with Mathmatics. • Albert had won a Nobel Prize in for Physics in 1921, for his explanation for the photoelectric effect.

  4. Why was Einstein important? • Albert Einstein was considered one of the greatest thinkers of all time. • Einstein’s theories of nature of time, and space had profundly affected the human conception of the physical world and had set many foundations for scientific advances for the 20th century.

  5. How did he get into Science? • In early October 1896 he received his school-leaving certificate and shortly enrolled at the EidgenoessischePolytechnischeSchule with the goal of becoming a teacher in Mathematics and Physics. Einstein had been an average student and finished his studies with a diploma degree in July, 1900. He then applied, without success, for assistantships at the PolytechnischeSchule and other Universities. Meanwhile he had abandoned the German Citizenship and formally applied for the Swiss Citizenship which he was granted on February 21, 1901.

  6. Factsabout Einstein! • Einstein was a fat baby with, a large head! • When Einstein was a child, he had speech difficulties. • Einstein was inspired in Science by a compass! • Einstein had failed his University Entrance Exam! • Einstein had an Illegitimate Daughter for a Child! • Einstein Became Estranged From His First Wife, then Proposed a Strange "Contract.” • Einstein did not get along with his oldest son. • Einstein, the War Pacifist, Urged FDR to Build the Atom Bomb! • The Saga of Einstein's Brain: Pickled in a Jar for 43 Years and Driven Cross Country in a Trunk of a Buick! • Einstein had married his cousin, Elsa, after the divorce with Mileva, and before that, he had thoughts about marrying Elsa’s daughter, Ilse.

  7. This is a picture of Einstein’s brain taken in 1955.

  8. This is a picture of Einstein and his second wife, and cousin, Elsa.

  9. How has Einstein changed the way we think? • Einstein had uncovered many Mathmatical equations that were hard to solve. • Einstein had also proved a couple of Physics theories. • He had explained and, changed the way we think of how space really is space.

  10. Bibliography • "How Einstein Changed the Way We Think About Science." Einstein and Science. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. • "Albert Einstein Biography." Bio.om. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. • PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. • "Neatorama." Neatorama. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2013. <http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/26/10-strange-facts-about-einstein/>.

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