Albert Einstein
Albert EinsteinHis Childhood Years:
Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in the small town of Ulm, in Southern Germany. His parents, Hermann and Pauline, were Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He first realized the wonders of science at the age of four, when his dad introduced him to magnets and their properties. Einstein later said: " That Experience made a deep and lasting impression on me." Later in his life as a kid, Einstein's uncle, Jacob, introduced him to mathematics and specifically, equations.
School was an unpleasant experience for Einstein. He was disgusted by how war strategies were taught at school and he had disgust for the military discipline that then reigned in most German schools. The teachers weren't so happy about how Einstein was doing and once one of his teachers told him: "You know Einstein, you will never amount to anything." At the time his family's financial status had gone from bad to worse.
Teenage Years and Graduation:
Einstein's relatives in Northern city of Milan in Italy, offered help to the family. At the time Einstein was at the age of fifteen when he decided to drop-out of high school and join his family to travel to Milan. However he was expelled from school by the principal; he (the principal) said:" on the grounds that his presence in the class is disruptive and affects the other students." Albert Einstein had become a dropout. In Italy he felt free for the first time. With nobody to guide every step of his daily life, he traveled through the countryside. He visited museums and art galleries, attended concerts and lectures, and most of all, Einstein read books and more books. But his good times didn�t last long. The electrical engineering business his father had started , had encountered one setback after another. The young researcher was told to forget his "philosophical nonsense" and settle down to a "practical" life of self-support. Albert could not imagine himself doing a career with a routine office, nor he could accept a profession like his father's. His only desire was to solve the nature of unsolved and mysterious puzzles.
Albert finally decided he needed a university education. But because he had not graduated from high school, he could not enter any university in Germany. However, in Zuncih wich is in the German speaking part of Switzerland, there was the country's famous Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) (Eidgenossische Technische Houchschule). Einstein was sixteen at the...
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