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Facts About Albert Einstein
1 – Albert Einstein was born on March 14th, 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch.
2 – He had a pet chimp named Jethro.
3 – His family moved to Italy when he was 6 years old.
4 – He graduated from the Zurich Polytechnic Institute and attended college with a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Bern.
5 – In 1905, at the age of 26, he published his paper on special relativity which explained that time is relative and not fixed (it described how time slows down as an object approaches the speed of light).
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6 – Einstein’s work helped shape quantum theory and nuclear physics as we know it today.
7 – The Nobel Prize committee awarded him the 1921 prize for his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect, one year before he died in 1955.
8 – He had two sisters, Maja and Lieserl.
9 – His father Hermann Einstein owned a small electrical company that manufactured electric motors.
10 – In 1909, he received his first academic appointment as Professor of theoretical physics at Zurich Polytechnic School (later called ETH) teaching there until 1911 when he went to Berlin to take up a position at the University of Berlin where he would remain for 20 years before moving back to Switzerland in 1933 following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.
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11 – He is best known for his theory of relativity and mass-energy equivalence (E=MC^2).
12 – His most famous quote is “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
13 – He was the first person to win a Nobel Prize in two different categories.
14 – His IQ is estimated at 160.
15 – He had an eidetic memory and could remember anything he read or heard.
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16 – When he died, his brain was cut into 240 pieces and distributed among universities for study.
17 – He was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
18 – The general theory of relativity explains how gravity affects space and time, and it has been applied to astrophysics to model large scale structures like galaxies and even larger structures.
19 – He died on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 from an abdominal aortic aneurysm while he was recovering from surgery for colon cancer
20 – Einstein’s brain weighed 2,230 grams or 4 pounds 3 ounces when he died and it has been preserved after his death so scientists can study it more closely.
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21 – He also worked on quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and Brownian motion.
22 – Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics “for his services to Theoretical Physics”.
23 – His awards include the Copley Medal from the Royal Society, a Gold Medal from France’s Academy of Sciences, and an honorary degree from Harvard University.
24 – In 1922 he became a member of London’s Royal Society.
25 – The family moved to Munich when he was four years old.
26 -When he was six, his father showed him how electric lights worked by running an electrical current through a copper wire.
27 – His first patent is for the “electricity-generating device” which he created with his uncle at age 17.
