Albert Einstein
The man who known for his equation E = mc^2
Here's a time line of Albert Einstein life:
- 1879 - Born in Ulm, Germany
- 1880 - The Einstein family moves to Munich, Germany.
- 1885 - ·Einstein enrolls in the second grade of a Catholic elementary school called the Petersschule. He receives Jewish religious instruction at home and also begins taking violin lessons.
- 1888 - Einstein is accepted at the Luitpold Gymnasium
- 1894 - The Einstein family moves to Milan, Italy, but Einstein remains in Munich to complete his education at the Gymnasium. Einstein drops out of the Luitpold Gymnasium and joins his family in Milan.
- 1895 - After failing the entry exam for the Zurich Polytechnic, Einstein is accepted to the trade department of the cantonal school in Aarau, Switzerland. He lives with the family of Jost Winteler, a teacher in Aarau.
- 1896 - Einstein's officially renounces his German citizenship. Einstein begins studying at the Zurich Polytechnic in a teachers' training program.
- 1900 - Einstein receives his diploma as a mathematics teacher and starts work on his doctoral thesis.
- 1901 - Einstein officially becomes a Swiss citizen. Einstein works as a temporary teacher at the Technical College in Winterthur, Switzerland.
- 1905 - Einstein completes his paper on quantum theory. Einstein's paper on Brownian motion is accepted by the Annalen der Physik.
- 1906 - Einstein receives his doctorate from the University of Zurich.
- 1908 - Einstein becomes a privatdozent at Bern University.
- 1909 - Einstein is appointed extraordinary professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University.
- 1912 - Einstein begins collaborating with Marcel Grossman about the general theory of relativity.
- 1914 - Einstein signs a "Manifesto to the Europeans" advocating his pacifist and internationalist ideals. He also completes his formulation of the general theory of relativity.
- 1919 - A solar eclipse has allowed scientists to observe phenomena predicted by Einstein's general relativity theory, and news of the theory's confirmation is announced at a ceremonial meeting of the Royal Society of London. Einstein becomes famous.
- 1922 - Einstein wins the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum theory.
- 1932 - Einstein is appointed to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. He plans to spend half a year a Princeton and the other half in Berlin.
- 1922 - Einstein wins the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum theory.
- 1933 - Einstein moves to the United States with his wife and his secretary Helen Dukas.
- 1939 - Einstein signs a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the acceleration of atomic bomb development.
- 1940 - Einstein becomes an American citizen.
- 1952 - After Chaim Weizmann's death, Einstein is offered the presidency of Israel. He declines.
- 1955 - ·Einstein dies in New Jersey. His body is cremated and his papers turned over to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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