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Albert Einstein was born at Ulm in Württemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879. Just six weeks after his birth, the family moved to Munich where he began his schooling at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, the family moved to Italy where Einstein continued his education at Aarau in Switzerland until 1896. He then entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be a teacher of physics and mathematics.
In 1901, the year he was granted his diploma, he received Swiss citizenship, but was unable to find a teaching post. Instead, Einstein accepted a position as a technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office and just four years later, in 1905, Albert received his doctorate.
It was at the Patent Office that, in his spare time, Albert produced much of his work. In 1908, Einstein was appointed Privatdozent in Berne.
In 1909, Albert became a professor Extraordinary at Zurich and in 1911, Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague and filled a similar post in Zurich the following year.
In 1914, Einstein was appointed Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute and Professor at the University of Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship, while gaining back his German Citizenship.
Albert remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and emigrated to America to become a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton, however he was formally associated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein received his United States citizenship in 1940 and retired from his position in 1945.
When World War II was over, Einstein was a lead figure for the World Government Movement. He was offered the Presidency of Israel, but declined and collaborated with Dr. Chaim Weizmann to establish the Hebrew University of Jerusalem instead.
Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903, who he had a daughter and two sons. In 1919 their marriage resulted in a divorce. That same year, he remarried, to his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal who died in 1936.
Albert received many awards, doctorates and honorary memberships to all leading academic academies in the world. Amongst the awards include, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935, and most of all the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Einstein regarded much of his works as just stepping stones to the next advances in science. Einstein spent many years working and constructing the unification of basic concepts throughout science as he took the opposite approach many leading scientists took, geometrisation.
Albert Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955 at the age of 76.
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