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Albert Einstein Timeline

The most famous of all the scientists - remembered for his theory E = mc2
Dates relating to his early life, family and education
His Special Theory of Relativity
Professor of theoretical physics
His citizenship of the USA

Why was Albert Einstein famous?
Albert Einstein was famous as an author and brilliant Physicist in pioneering work with his special theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence: E = mc2

Albert Einstein Timeline

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Short Biography of Albert Einstein
Date of Birth: Born on March 14, 1879
Place of Birth : Ulm, Württemberg, Germany
Parents: Father - Hermann Einstein
             Mother: Pauline Einstein (née Koch)
Background Facts, Information & Ancestry : Ashkenazi Jewish

1879

 

This timeline starts on March 14, 1879 when Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein

1880

 

The family move to Munich

1881

 

His sister Maja (Maria) is born

1884

 

The Compass - When he was only five years old his father showed Albert a pocket compass and he was fascinated by the thought that something unseen was moving the needle

1885 -1888

 

The Einstein family did not observe Jewish religious practices and Albert attended a Catholic elementary school

1889

 

Albert Einstein is introduced to a family friend called Max Talmud who introduced the boy to books on science and mathematics. Albert starts his quest for facts and information available about the sciences. He attends the Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich for the next six years

1894

 

Due to financial reasons the Einstein family move from Munich to Pavia, Italy. Albert is left in Munich to finish his studies but soon decides to follow the family to Italy

1895

 

He is sent to the Swiss town of Aarau to finish high school.

1896

 

Albert graduates from high school at the age of 17 and enrols at the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich. He renounces his German citizenship

1898

 

Albert meets and falls in love with Mileva Maric, a Hungarian classmate at the ETH

1900

 

Einstein graduates in 1900 from ETH with a degree in physics

1901

 

February 21: Albert Einstein acquires Swiss citizenship. He completes his first scientific paper on the capillary forces of a straw. Mileva becomes pregnant and moves to live with her parents in to Hungary to give birth to their baby. Albert moves to Bern.

1902

 

Einstein and Mileva have a daughter called  Lieserl Einstein who is later given up for adoption. Albert takes a job at the Swiss Patent Office

1903

 

January 6, 1903: Einstein marries Mileva

1904

 

May 14, 1904: Albert and Mileva's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Berne, Switzerland.

1905

 

His Special Theory of Relativity is born and he applies his theory to mass and energy and formulates the famous equation e=mc2. Einstein has four papers published in the Annalen der Physik, the leading German physics journal. 1905 is known as Einstein's "Wonderful Year".

1907

 

Einstein begins applying the laws of gravity to his Special Theory of Relativity.

1908

 

Albert Einstein becomes a privatdozent (an associate professorship) at the University of Bern.

1909

 

He resigns from Patent Office and is appointed Associate Professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University

1910

 

July 28, 1910: Albert and Mileva's second son, Eduard, was born in Munich. He writes a paper on critical opalescence that described why the sky is blue.

1911

 

Einstein predicts bending of light. He is appointed Professor of theoretical physics at the German University of Prague

1913

 

He is appointed Professor of theoretical physics at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and works on his new Theory of Gravity

1914

 

Albert and Mileva separate and live apart. Einstein is appointed Professor at University of Berlin
WW1begins and Einstein signs anti-war "Manifesto to Europeans"

1915

 

Einstein completes the General Theory of Relativity.
He joins the "New Fatherland League" a pacifist organisation

1916

 

His General Theory of Relativity is published

1917

 

Einstein writes his first paper on cosmology. He is Appointed Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin

1918

 

Einstein falls seriously ill and is nursed by his cousin, Elsa Einstein Loewenthal

1919

 

February 14, 1919: Einstein and Mileva divorce and Einstein marries his cousin Elsa on May 29.
A solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

1921

 

Einstein visits to the U.S. and lectures at Princeton University on theory of relativity

1922

 

Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 1921

1923

 

Visits the Far East and Spain where he lectures at various universities

1924

 

The "Einstein-Institute" in Potsdam begins its activities

1925

 

Visits various countries in South America. He joins the Board of Governors and Academic Council of The Hebrew University

1927

 

He begins to develop the foundation of quantum mechanics with Niels Bohr.

1928

 

Einstein begins pursing his idea of a unified field theory. He becomes ill and enlargement of the heart is diagnosed

1930- 1933

 

Einstein makes several visits to the USA delivering lectures at universities

1933

 

January: Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Albert Einstein leaves Germany and emigrates to U.S. in September and settles in Princeton, New Jersey where he assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.

1934

 

The World As I See It published

1935

 

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox is published

1936

 

Elsa Einstein dies

1939

 

World War 2starts and Albert Einstein warns President Roosevelt that Germany might build an atomic bomb. He then recommends nuclear research

1940

 

Einstein becomes a citizen of the United States but also retains his Swiss citizenship.

1943

 

Works with the Research and Development Division of the U.S. Navy on Ammunition and Explosives

1945

 

WW2 ends with the terrible nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1946

 

Einstein is appointed chairman of the Emergency Committee for Atomic Scientists

1947

 

He works on behalf of the cause for disarmament

1949

 

Mileva dies

1952

 

Albert Einstein is offered presidency of the State of Israel

1955

 

Co-signs the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warning of the nuclear threat

April 17: Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding

April 18: He died in Princeton Hospital at the age of 76

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