Biography of Albert Einstein
Einstein's Biography & Contribution Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, to a middle-class Jewish family. He showed early signs of brilliance and curiosity, but struggled with formal education and authority. His family moved to Munich when he was a child, where he attended a Swiss school, and later enrolled at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. Einstein graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in 1900 and began working as a teacher and a patent examiner. During this time, he conducted groundbreaking research on the properties of light, proposing the theory of special relativity in 1905. This theory, which introduced the famous equation E=mc^2, challenged the prevailing notions of space and time, and established Einstein as a leading physicist. In 1905, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers in the scientific journal Annalen der Physik, covering topics such as the photoelectric effect, the Brownian motion, and the theory of spec...