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Albert Einstein
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Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in
1879. He was a physicist and scientist. His
family was Jewish. He had a pale face and a
tiny beginning of a paunch. In November
1881 Einstein's sister Maria was born.
They moved to Munich later. Einstein did
not begin speaking until he was 2 years old.
His sister said he had such difficulty with
language and with those around him. When
Einstein was around 4 years old, his father
gave him a magnetic compass. So in this way
Einstein became interested in studying
science and math. He attended school in
Aarau when he successfully took his A-levels
and began to study in Zurich. He finished his
studies in July 1900.
After school, he went to work at the
patent office. While he was working in the
office,he wrote the formula on the paper
that made him famous as a great scientist.
The most famous formula from Einstein
was E＝mc². E stands for energy, m for mass
and c for the speed of the light. It means
that energy and mass are different forms of
the same thing. Einstein published more
than 300 scientific papers.
Einstein married a 20-year-old Serbian
woman Mileva Marić in January 1903.In 1917,
Einstein became very sick with an illness
that almost killed him. His cousin Elsa
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Löwenthal nursed him back to health. After
this happened, Einstein divorced Mileva on
the 14th of February 1919, and married Elsa
on the 2nd of June 1919. Einstein's first
daughter spent her very short life in the
care of Serbian grandparents. It is believed
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she died from scarlet fever. Einstein also had
2 sons. Einstein's granddaughter discovered
there were 54 love letters in a box, most of
them were Einstein’s.
He became a teacher in a school and he
died on the 18th of April 1955 of a serious
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illness. He was still writing about quantum
physics hours before he died.
I chose him because he was the most
famous scientist and physicist in the world
and he helped a lot of people to solve
problems. He was very smart and many
people like him.
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