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Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, a city in the state of Württemberg, Germany, and died on April 8, 1955 in Princeton. In his early years as a child, Einstein went to a school in Munich, at the Luitpold Gymnasium till 6 months after he turned fifteen. The first three years of his life his parents Hermann and Pauline Kock Einstein, were very concerned for their son who couldn’t talk, but he soon could speak, later he recalled, “I didn’t want to speak till I could do it right!” When Albert turned fifteen Albert stayed behind as his family moved to Milan, Italy, because his father’s electric business in Munich failed. Albert stayed behind because he wanted to finish his schooling. Although he stayed behind he did not finish his schooling, six months later he dropped out to live with his family in Milan. It was a short stay for Albert when he decided he wanted to go to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. After he graduated, he went to Bern, Switzerland to work at a Swiss Patent Office, but he also fell in love with his future wife, Mileva Maric, one of many. He finally had the courage to write to a German science journal called Annalen der Physik, about a way to count the number of atoms and molecules in a given space. This year was called, “Einstein’s annus mirabilis,” in Latin it is the term for “year of miracles,” which changed the world as we now know it.
Albert Einstein was the world’s greatest scientist and still is, but he was a horrible father and husband. He hardly even noticed his family or was even with them, it seemed like to him they were just some random people in the crowd. On the other hand, Einstein always appeared to have a clear view of all kinds of problems of physics and the determination to solve hard ones. He had a strategy of his own and was able to visualize them. He regarded his major achievements as mere “stepping-stones” for the next idea or thought. He also said that...