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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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