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Albert Einstein was born on 14 March, 1879 in the city of Ulm in Germany. He did not show any indication of Tuture greatness. He was a late talker and did not mix and play with his playmates. He played by himself much or the time and loved mechanical toys. His headmaster had once told his father that Einstein will never be successful at anything. On his mother's encouragement, he began learning to play violin of the age of six. He later became a gifted amateur violinist. He attended a high school in Munich. Though he was a good student, he hated the school's regimentation and left the school at the age of 15.
He then continued his education in German-speaking Switzerland, a city which was more liberal than Munich. He was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics.
After finishing school, he joined a University in Zurich. There he met Mileva Maric, a young Serbian student. The couple fell in love. In 1900, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein was a university graduate. In 1902 he secured a job as a technical expert in the patent office in Bern. He developed his own ideas in physics in secret. He published four papers in 1905. One of them was Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. He established the world's most famous formula: E = mc2.
He married Mileva in January 1903. They had two sons. But a few years later, the marraige faltered and the couple finally got divorced in 1919. Einstein married his cousin Elsa the same year. In 1915, Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity. It provided a new interpretation of gravity. The newspapers proclaimed his work as 'a scientific revolution'.
Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Einstein emigrated to the United States. Five vears later, the discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin had American physicists in an uproar.
At the urge of a colleague, Einstein wrote a letter to the American President of Franklin D Roosevelt on 2 August, 1935. The letter warned about the extent of destruction which can be caused by the explosion of an atom bomb. Not paying heed to his advice, the Americans developed the atorn bomb in a secret project and dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction caused in these two cities. He wrote a letter to the United Nations and proposed the formation of a world government, Over the next decade Einstein agitated for the end of the arms buildup and campaigned for peace and democracy, When he died in 1955 he was celebrated as a world citizen.