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             Albert Einstein                                     that almost killed him. His cousin Elsa
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                                                                 Löwenthal nursed him back to health. After
                       B Y   E R I N   G .   G R 6               this happened, Einstein divorced Mileva on

         Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany in                    the 14th of February 1919, and married Elsa

     1879. He was a physicist and scientist. His                 on the 2nd of June 1919. Einstein's first

     family was Jewish. He had a pale face and a                 daughter spent her very short life in the
     tiny beginning of a paunch. In November                     care of Serbian grandparents. It is believed
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     1881 Einstein's sister Maria was born.                      she died from scarlet fever. Einstein also had
         They moved to Munich later. Einstein did                2 sons. Einstein's granddaughter discovered

     not begin speaking until he was 2 years old.                there were 54 love letters in a box, most of

     His sister said he had such difficulty with                 them were Einstein’s.
     language and with those around him. When                        He became a teacher in a school and he

     Einstein was around 4 years old, his father                 died on the 18th of April 1955 of a serious
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     gave him a magnetic compass. So in this way                 illness. He was still writing about quantum
     Einstein became interested in studying                      physics hours before he died.

     science and math. He attended school in                         I chose him because he was the most

     Aarau when he successfully took his A-levels                famous scientist and physicist in the world
     and began to study in Zurich. He finished his               and he helped a lot of people to solve

     studies in July 1900.                                       problems. He was very smart and many
         After school, he went to work at the                    people like him.

     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

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