A Truly Beautiful mind

Theme of the Story:

Great men are not born with special signs. In their childhood days they are also like
common children, and their likes and dislikes are very much similar to them. Their parents
also take care of them as normally parents do. Gradually, these children develop some
specific virtues and become great when they grow up.

Short Summary
Einstein as a little boy:
This story is about a genius-Albert Einstein, who was born on 14 Ria March, 1879 in the
German city of Ulm. His mother thought him to be freak. His head seemed too large. He
was not talking till he was two and a half. He played by himself and loved mechanical toys.
He learnt to play violin at six. Once his headmaster told his father that he would never be a
success at anything.

Einstein's desire: Einstein was good at studies but left school for good as he always clashed
with teachers. He wished to continue his education in Switzerland. He was highly gifted in
Mathematics and Physics. He decided to study at the University of Zurich after schooling.
He found his fellow student Mileva Marica 'clever creature'.

His work and marriage: At the age of 21, Einstein worked as a technical assistant and
finally secured the job of a technical expert, His famous papers of 1905 was 'Einstein's
Special Theory of Relativity'. While he was solving problems in Physics, his private life was
unravelling. He wanted to marry Mileva. And finally he married her. But they could not live
together and finally the couple divorced in 1919 Later, Albert married his cousin the same
year.

Noble prize for physics: Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. The
proclaimed his work as a scientific revolution. He received the Nobel Prize for newspapers
Physics in 1921 and was lauded by the press all over the world.

Emigration to U.S.: Einstein emigrated to U.S. in 1933, when the Nazis came to power in
Germany. Five years later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American
physicists in an uproar. Many of them fled, as Einstein had, and they were afraid that the
Nazis could build and use an atomic bomb.

Einstein's letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt: Einstein wrote a letter to Franklin D.

Roosevelt, the American President and warned him that a single nuclear bomb would make
a mass destruction. But the Americans secretly developed an atomic bomb and dropped
them on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Einstein's sorrow: Einstein was deeply shaken by the destruction caused by the atomic
bombs. He proposed to the United Nations for forming a world government. But his letter
made no impact. Over the next decade, he got involved in politics for an end to the arms
buildup and campaigned for peace and democracy.

Einstein's death: Einstein died in 1955 and the world celebrated him as a visionary and
world citizen