Albert Einstein - Facts

• Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist.
• Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 and died on the 18th of April 1955.
• He was born with an abnormal big head and was unable to talk with confident later became a great physicist of all times.
• Einstein started talking in the age of four but still he wasn't fluent till the age of 9. 
• At the age of 5, his father gifted him with a compass and this was the starting of a revolution in his brain because he got much curious to know about the force due to which the compass pointed in the same direction.
• He once dropped out from his school for his non-serious behavior towards his studies, also he failed the college entrance exam at the age of 17, he failed all the subjects except science and maths.
• Even when very young, Einstein showed great ability in both math’s and science. He was naturally curious and had a brilliant analytical mind.
• Einstein originally wanted to become a mathematics and physics teacher but later changed his mind and wanted to be a university professor.
• His first permanent job was as a clerk in a patent office in Bern, Switzerland.
• After Einstein’s death, his brain was  removed from his head by Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey without the permission of his family.
• In 1905, Einstein got his Ph.D and wrote a paper on the topic now called the special theory of relativity. He published a paper on mass-energy equivalence where he explained one of the most famous equations  of all times i.e. e=mc2. This equation said that small masses could be converted into huge amount of energy.
• He was named as the Person of the Century by Time magazine.
•  An element named einsteinium was discovered in 1952 and named in his honor.
• Two of Einstein's least favorite things: Haircuts and socks. Two of Einstein's favorite things: The violin and sailing.
• Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on theoretical physics.
• He worked on many other influential theories and projects including: the deflection of light by gravity, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, Brownian motion, an explanation for capillary action and much more.
• Einstein was married twice: first to his college girlfriend and classmate, Mileva Maric, and then to his cousin, Elsa Einstein.
• Einstein was a citizen of three countries. He was a German citizen by birth but gave up his citizenship in 1896 because he despised Germany's militarism. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901. In 1933, he moved to the United States to flee the Nazis, and he became a U.S. citizen in 1940.
• In 1952, Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel after the death of the country's first president. Einstein declined the offer.