A Little Bit About Einstein

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suggested that he leave school, so at mid-term the 15 year old boy quit school. Einstein then moved to Italy to help his father in business. In 1895, he failed the entrance exam for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. They suggested that he studied at a Swiss school in Aarau. There he studied theories of electromagnetism, by James Clark Maxwell. At the age of 16, he wrote an essay on why he would like to study theoretical math or physics. He stated, "All above it is my individual disposition for abstract and mathematical thought, my lack of imagination in practical talent. My inclinations have also led me to resolve that is quite natural; one always likes to do things which one has talent. And there is a certain independence in the scientific profession which greatly pleases me." He graduated from the Swiss school, in 1896 at 17 years old. Then he was then accepted to the Institute of Technology in Zurich. This is where he met his first wife, Melvia Merich; she ...

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and techniques that he found a necessity toward his new Theory of Gravitation. In 1914, the German Government gave Einstein a Swiss Research appointment in Berlin, plus a membership in the Prussian Academy of Science. Soon after this, Einstein and his wife separated and then divorced in 1919. The reason being Einstein’s love affair with his cousin, Elsa Lowen, who nursed him back to health in 1917 after he fell deathly ill. Einstein continued with his theory of Relativity and a solar eclipse proved that it was true in 1919. He married Elsa just before the eclipse occurred.

Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity had beginnings in an essay he wrote when he ...

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