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Albert E
Date Submitted: 01/15/2004 14:38:16
Albert E
March 14 1879 - April 18 1955
Born Ulm, Germany. Died Princeton, USA.
Albert Einstein was a very famous Scientist, he was mostly famous for his theory of Relativity.
In 1894 Einstein's family moved to Milan and Einstein decided officially to relinquish his German citizenship in favor of Swiss. In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at Zurich. After attending secondary school at Aarau,Einstein returned (1896)
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After a number of false starts he published, late in 1915, the definitive version of general
theory.
When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, Einstein was idolised by the
popular press. Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 but did not reapply for German citizenship.
Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the
photoelectric effect
.
He worked at Princeton on work which attempted to unify the laws of physics.
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