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Short Biography of Albert Einstein
Date of Birth: Born on March 14, 1879
Place of Birth : Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Parents: Father - Hermann Einstein
Mother:
Pauline Einstein (née Koch)
Background Facts, Information & Ancestry :
Ashkenazi Jewish
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1879 |
This timeline starts on March
14, 1879 when Albert Einstein was born in Ulm,
Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Hermann and
Pauline Einstein
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1880 |
The family move to Munich |
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1881 |
His sister Maja (Maria) is
born |
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1884 |
The Compass - When he was only
five years old his father showed Albert a pocket
compass and he was fascinated by the thought that
something unseen was moving the needle
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1885 -1888 |
The Einstein family did not
observe Jewish religious practices and Albert
attended a Catholic elementary school
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1889 |
Albert Einstein is introduced
to a family friend called Max Talmud who introduced
the boy to books on science and mathematics. Albert
starts his quest for facts and information available
about the sciences. He attends the Luitpold-Gymnasium
in Munich for the next six years
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1894 |
Due to financial reasons the
Einstein family move from Munich to Pavia, Italy.
Albert is left in Munich to finish his studies but
soon decides to follow the family to Italy
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1895 |
He is sent to the Swiss town
of Aarau to finish high school. |
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1896 |
Albert graduates from high
school at the age of 17 and enrols at the ETH (the
Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich. He renounces his
German citizenship
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1898 |
Albert meets and falls in love
with Mileva Maric, a Hungarian classmate at the ETH |
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1900 |
Einstein graduates in 1900
from ETH with a degree in physics |
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1901 |
February 21: Albert Einstein
acquires Swiss citizenship. He completes his first
scientific paper on the capillary forces of a straw.
Mileva becomes pregnant and moves to live with her
parents in to Hungary to give birth to their baby.
Albert moves to Bern.
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1902 |
Einstein and Mileva have a
daughter called Lieserl Einstein who is later
given up for adoption. Albert takes a job at the
Swiss Patent Office
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1903 |
January 6, 1903: Einstein
marries Mileva |
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1904 |
May 14, 1904: Albert and
Mileva's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born
in Berne, Switzerland. |
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1905 |
His Special Theory of
Relativity is born and he applies his theory to mass
and energy and formulates the famous equation e=mc2.
Einstein has four papers published in the Annalen
der Physik, the leading German physics journal. 1905
is known as Einstein's "Wonderful Year".
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1907 |
Einstein begins applying the
laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity. |
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1908 |
Albert Einstein becomes a
privatdozent (an associate professorship) at the
University of Bern. |
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1909 |
He resigns from Patent Office
and is appointed Associate Professor of theoretical
physics at Zurich University
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1910 |
July 28, 1910: Albert and
Mileva's second son, Eduard, was born in Munich. He
writes a paper on critical opalescence that
described why the sky is blue.
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1911 |
Einstein predicts bending of
light. He is appointed Professor of theoretical
physics at the German University of Prague
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1913 |
He is appointed Professor of
theoretical physics at the Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich and works on his new Theory of
Gravity
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1914 |
Albert and Mileva separate and
live apart. Einstein is appointed Professor at
University of Berlin
WW1 begins and Einstein signs anti-war "Manifesto to
Europeans"
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1915 |
Einstein completes the General
Theory of Relativity.
He joins the "New Fatherland League" a pacifist
organisation
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1916 |
His General Theory of
Relativity is published |
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1917 |
Einstein writes his first
paper on cosmology. He is Appointed Director of
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin
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1918 |
Einstein falls seriously ill
and is nursed by his cousin, Elsa Einstein
Loewenthal |
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1919 |
February 14, 1919: Einstein
and Mileva divorce and Einstein marries his cousin
Elsa on May 29.
A solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of
Relativity
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1921 |
Einstein visits to the U.S.
and lectures at Princeton University on theory of
relativity
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1922 |
Albert Einstein is awarded the
Nobel Prize in physics for 1921 |
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1923 |
Visits the Far East and Spain
where he lectures at various universities |
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1924 |
The "Einstein-Institute" in
Potsdam begins its activities |
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1925 |
Visits various countries in
South America. He joins the Board of Governors and
Academic Council of The Hebrew University
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1927 |
He begins to develop the
foundation of quantum mechanics with Niels Bohr. |
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1928 |
Einstein begins pursing his
idea of a unified field theory. He becomes ill and
enlargement of the heart is diagnosed
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1930- 1933 |
Einstein makes several visits
to the USA delivering lectures at universities |
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1933 |
January: Adolf Hitler
appointed Chancellor of Germany
Albert Einstein leaves Germany and emigrates to U.S.
in September and settles in Princeton, New Jersey
where he assumes a post at the Institute for
Advanced Study.
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1934 |
The World As I See It
published |
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1935 |
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen
paradox is published |
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1936 |
Elsa Einstein dies |
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1939 |
World War II starts and Albert
Einstein warns President Roosevelt that Germany
might build an atomic bomb. He then recommends
nuclear research
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1940 |
Einstein becomes a citizen of
the United States but also retains his Swiss
citizenship. |
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1943 |
Works with the Research and
Development Division of the U.S. Navy on Ammunition
and Explosives |
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1945 |
WW2 ends with the terrible
nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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1946 |
Einstein is appointed chairman
of the Emergency Committee for Atomic Scientists |
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1947 |
He works on behalf of the
cause for disarmament |
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1949 |
Mileva dies |
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1952 |
Albert Einstein is offered
presidency of the State of Israel |
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1955 |
Co-signs the Russell-Einstein
Manifesto warning of the nuclear threat
April 17: Albert Einstein
experienced internal bleeding
April 18: He died in Princeton Hospital at the age
of 76 |
