Albert Einstein had a big impact on the world. He discovered spacetime and the famous equation E=MC2.

Childhood

           He was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. His parents (Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch) were worried about him because he was late to talk but later Einstein showed an interest in mathematics and science by reading the work of Ludwig Boltzmann, James C. Maxwell, Herman L. F. von Helmholtz, and others.  He thought the compass was a mysterious thing.  At age 12 when he discovered a book of geometry, which he devoured, calling it his “sacred little geometry book. Albert’s family went away to italy. Soon later, Albert went after his family.  

Adulthood

           After finishing high school in Italy Albert enrolled in Polytechnic Institute he studied mathematics and physics. He avoided many lectures and so did not impress his professors. But he was actually studying very hard. When albert graduated Polytechnic Institute he asked to be appointed as an assistant in the physics department. But he was refused. Einstein went to work in the Swiss patent office in Bern. There, he had time to consider problems in physics.

Impact on the world

       He published three papers They included a description of his special theory of relativity but when  published his general theory of relativity. In it he proposed that gravity is not a force, a previously accepted theory, but a curved field in the space-time continuum that is created by the presence of mass.

      A second paper laid the foundation for the photon, or quantum, theory of light. In it he proposed that light is made of separate packets of energy, called quanta or photons, that have some of the properties of particles and some of the properties of waves. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics two years later; however, the prize was for his work in theoretical physics, not relativity theories, which were still considered to be controversial.

Challenges

        Albert Einstein was challenged in the 1930s Albert had many heartbreaking news first, his friend physicist Paul Ehrenfest committed suicide and his son Eduard was diagnosed with schizophrenia and suffered a mental breakdown in 1930 and to make matters worse his wife Elsa died. When Hitler and  the Nazis took control in Germany, they denounced his ideas, seized his property, and burned his books. That year he moved to the United States. In 1940 he became a U.S. citizen.