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albert Einstein

Honorary doctor

Scientist childhood

• Albert Einstein was born in the German Empire on 14 March 1879.
• His father was Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer. His mother was Pauline Einstein.
• In 1894 his father’s company failed.
• In search of business, the Einstein family moved to Italy, first to Milan and then, a few months later, to Pavia.

• In the spring of 1895, he withdrew to join his family in Pavia, convincing the school to let him go by using a doctor’s note.
• In 1896 he enrolled in the four year mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Polytechnic

On 30 April 1905, he completed his thesis, with Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Experimental Physics, serving as pro-forma advisor. Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich. His dissertation was entitled “A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions”

By 1908, he was recognized as a leading scientist, and he was appointed lecturer at the University of Berne.

In 1911, he had calculated that, based on his new theory of general relativity, light from another star would be bent by the Sun’s gravity.

In 1921, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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• In 1922, he traveled throughout Asia and Later to Palestine, as part of a six-month excursion and speaking tour.
• Einstein visited New York City for the time on 2 April 1921, where he received an official welcome by the Mayor, followed by three weeks of lectures and receptions.

Einstein decided to leave Germany and go to the United States. When World War II broke out in 1939 Einstein discovered that German scientists were working on a bomb that could kill thousands of people. He wrote a letter to the American president to warn him and suggested that the Americans start building one too.

• In 1941 the American government started the Manhattan project which led to the construction of the atomic bomb. Two of these bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end the war against Japan. Einstein was horrified when he heard the news. He wanted the world to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
• For the last twenty years of his life, Einstein lived in Princeton where he continued his scientific work. He died on April 18, 1955.