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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and showed an early interest in science from being fascinated by a compass as a child. He had difficulties with language as a young child. He went to school in Switzerland and later got a job in the patent office, where he did his early scientific work. Einstein had two children with his first wife Mileva who both had disabilities. He divorced Mileva and later married his cousin Elsa. Due to the rise of the Nazis, Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1933. He worked as a physics professor until his death in 1955 and made major contributions to physics through his theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and showed an early interest in science from being fascinated by a compass as a child. He had difficulties with language as a young child. He went to school in Switzerland and later got a job in the patent office, where he did his early scientific work. Einstein had two children with his first wife Mileva who both had disabilities. He divorced Mileva and later married his cousin Elsa. Due to the rise of the Nazis, Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1933. He worked as a physics professor until his death in 1955 and made major contributions to physics through his theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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    Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and showed an early interest in science from being fascinated by a compass as a child. He had difficulties with language as a young child. He went to school in Switzerland and later got a job in the patent office, where he did his early scientific work. Einstein had two children with his first wife Mileva who both had disabilities. He divorced Mileva and later married his cousin Elsa. Due to the rise of the Nazis, Einstein immigrated to the United States in 1933. He worked as a physics professor until his death in 1955 and made major contributions to physics through his theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.

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    Albert

    Einstein
    Mark Fagan
    Einstein was born in
    Wrttemberg, Germany, on
    14 March 1879. His family
    was Jewish, but was not very
    religious. However, later in life Einstein became very interested in his
    Judaism. Einstein did not begin speaking until after age two. According to his
    younger sister, Maja, "He had such difficulty with language that those around
    him feared he would never learn". When Einstein was around four, his father
    gave him a magnetic compass. He tried hard to understand how the needle
    could seem to move itself so that it always
    pointed north. The needle was in a closed case,
    so clearly nothing like wind could be pushing the
    needle around, and yet it moved. So in this way
    Einstein became interested in studying science
    and mathematics. His compass inspired him to
    explore the world of science.
    When he became older, he went to a school in
    Switzerland. After he graduated, he got a job in
    the patent office there. While he was working
    there, he wrote the papers that first made him
    famous as a great scientist.
    Einstein had two severely disabled children with
    his first wife Mileva. His daughter "Lieserl" was
    born about a year before their marriage in
    January 1902. She spent her very short life
    (believed to be less than 2 years) in the care of Serbian grandparents where
    it is believed she died from scarlet fever. Some believe she may have been
    born with the disorder called Down syndrome but it has never been proved.
    Her very existence only became known to the world in 1986 when a shoe box
    containing 54 love letters (mostly from Einstein), exchanged between Mileva
    and Einstein from late 1897 to September 1903, was discovered by Einstein's
    granddaughter in an attic in California. Their son, Eduard, was diagnosed

    with schizophrenia. He spent decades in hospitals, and died in the Zurich


    sanatorium in 1965.
    In 1917, Einstein became very sick with an illness
    that almost killed him. His cousin Elsa Lowenthal
    nursed him back to health. After this happened,
    Einstein divorced Mileva, and married Elsa on 2
    June 1919.
    Just before the start of World War I, he moved
    back to Germany, and became director of a
    school there. He lived in Berlin until the Nazi
    government came to power. The Nazis hated
    people who were Jewish or who came from Jewish
    families. They accused Einstein of helping to
    create "Jewish physics," and German physicists tried to prove that his
    theories were wrong.
    In 1933, under death threats
    from the Nazis and hated by
    the Nazi-controlled German
    press, Einstein and Elsa
    moved to Princeton, New
    Jersey in the United States,
    and in 1940 he became a
    United States citizen.
    During World War II, Einstein and Le Szilrd wrote to the U.S. president,
    Franklin D. Roosevelt, to say that the United States should invent an atomic
    bomb so that the Nazi government could not beat them to the punch. He was
    the only one who signed the letter. He was, however, not part of the
    Manhattan Project, which was the project that created the atomic bomb.
    Einstein, a Jew but not an Israeli citizen, was offered the presidency in 1952
    but turned it down, stating "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of
    Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it." Ehud
    Olmert was reported to be considering offering the presidency to another
    non-Israeli, Elie Wiesel, but he was said to be "very not interested".
    He taught physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New
    Jersey until his death on 18 April 1955 of a burst aortic aneurysm. He was

    still writing about quantum physics hours before he died. He was awarded
    the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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