Albert

Einstein
Genius: The Life and
Work of Albert
Einstein
Introduction • Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in
the German City of Ulm. He was a German-born
American theoretical physicist, widely ranked
among the greatest and most influential
scientists of all time.
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Contents
• Life and Career
• Marriages and
Relationships
• Employment
• Einstein in Politics
• The End of Einstein

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Life and Career
• Catholic Elementary School – Munich

• Luitpold-Gymnasium

• Parents moved to Italy, but he stayed in Munich at 15 – later returned

• While in Italy as a teenager, he drafted an essay entitled "On the Investigation of the State of the Ether in a
Magnetic Field".

• Excelled in Algebra, Calculus and Euclidean geometry and discovered proofs at 14

• Entrance Exam at 16.

• Joined Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and met Meliva Marić.

 • Fell in love with Mileva Marić and married in 1903 and had two sons
Marriages and • Divorced on 14 Feb 1919.

Relationships • Married his cousin Elsa the same year. 

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 Employment
• Assistant and Technical Expert at Swiss Patent
Office in 1902.

• "Bureau of Theoretical Physics"

• First Scientific Papers which he disapproved

• His 24-page doctoral dissertation also addressed a

topic in molecular physics. Titled "A New
Determination of Molecular Dimensions"  and it
was completed on 30 April 1905.

• The outbreak of the First World War in July 1914

marked the beginning of Einstein's gradual
estrangement from the nation of his birth.

• Put forth 'Special Theory of Relativity" in 1915,

approved in 1919 and awarded Nobel Prize for
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Einstein in
Politics
• In 1922, Einstein's travels were to the old world
rather than the new. He devoted six months to a
tour of Asia that saw him speaking in Japan,
Singapore and Sri Lanka.

• 1922–1932: Serving the League of Nations

• 1933: Emigration to the US

• World War II

• US citizenship

• Love of music

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 The End of Einstein
• On 17 April 1955, Einstein refused surgery,
saying, "I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to
prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is
time to go. I will do it elegantly."

•  He died in the Penn Medicine Princeton Medical

Center age of 76, having continued to work until
near the end.

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Thank You
Deepak Poluru

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