"E = MC2" #German-born physicist #AlbertEinstein

Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. The place of birth was Ulm, Württemberg. He died on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

He was born in a middle-class Jew family and had a sister named Maja who was two years younger to him.

He had already been used to being something of a migrant as, by the age of 17, his parents had already taken him to live in Italy and Switzerland, where he began training to be a physics and maths teacher in 1896.

After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, he married his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. 

He was, actually, quite a bad husband to his first wife in their later years. He had affairs he never tried to hide, he moved the entire family to Berlin without discussion, and treated her more as a servant than a wife.

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Several years later his work on relativity made him world famous when he concluded that the trajectory of light arriving on Earth from a star would be bent by the gravity of the Sun.

By 1921, his groundbreaking theories had transformed the basics of modern physics and he was awarded the Nobel Prize.  

His Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 was not for his theory of relativity, but for his work on photoelectric effects.

He isn't completely responsible for E = mc2 -- at least not in the way you think he is. The most important part of the equation -- the suggestion of an equivalency between mass and energy -- had been proposed by a number of scientists including Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Henri Poincaré, and Oliver Heaviside years, even decades, before Einstein published his theory in 1905.

Even the equation itself, in a slightly different version, had been published more than once before Einstein, who was indeed able to simplify the equation and put it into the form that made it famous.

He moved to the US in 1933 to escape the Nazis, and became best pals with screen legend Charlie Chaplin.

He left his homeland forever because of Hitler. In February 1933, just one month after hitler became chancellor of Germany, Einstein came to the United States and never looked back. Knowing that Germany was no longer a safe place for Jews, he never again returned to his country of birth.Einstein was dubbed an enemy of the Nazi regime, with a $5,000.

The rise of Hitler and Nazism persuaded him to move to the US, where he later shed his avowal of pacifism and wrote to President Roosevelt urging him to press ahead with construction of a nuclear bomb to ensure the Germans did not get there first.

He later said this letter was his life’s biggest regret because nuclear weapons had such a fierce capacity for destruction.

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."

He turned down the chance to become President of Israel in 1952. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.

Albert Einstein died of internal bleeding on April 17, 1955, aged 76, which was marked with headlines around the world.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

But his story did not end there - his brain was removed by the pathologist to try to understand what made him so intelligent.

His brain wasn't the only part of his body that was preserved after his death. The same doctor that took Einstein's brain also took his eyeballs and eventually gave them to Einstein's ophthalmologist and friend, Henry Abrams, who kept them in a safe deposit box in New York City, where they remain to this day.

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