Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Albert Einstein

He was born in Ulm, in Wurttemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. He went to school at the Luitpold Gymnasium, in Munich. In 1896 he entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be trained to be teacher in Physics and Mathematics. In 1901, it is the year he gained his diploma from Swiss citizenship and as he was enable to find the teaching post, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905, he obtained his doctor's degree. After years of teaching in various established universities in Europe, he immigrated to America in 1933 for political reasons and war pressure. He took up the position of of Professor of Theoretical Physics at Princeton and retired in 1945. It was within those years that he had invented the historical momentum of human race; the atomic bomb - a disastrous invention that was used to destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Much to his regret, his discovery had killed many lives and left the world to suffer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

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