Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein was of Swiss/German ancestry, he became one of the greatest scientists the world will ever know. He was also an author, physicist, a philosopher, publishing more then 300 science related papers and 150 non-science related papers. His work solved centuries of problems in the physics world and surprised even the non-physicists view of the world. Many people did not think Albert was going to be successful in his lifetime due to the fact he had trouble speaking until the age of 9 and suffered from dyslexia which means sometimes letters would appear different then they really were.

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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879 to Hermann Einstein and Pauline Einstein. A years after his birth the family moved to Munich. His father was an engineer that owned a company with his uncle that sold electrical equipment that worked using direct current. Albert had a condition known as dyslexia and had a difficult time speaking correctly until around the age of 9 years old, but that did not prevent him from becoming the top student of his elementary school. He was a student at a Catholic elementary school in Munich but took private lessons in Judaism at home. A story Albert used to like to tell was when he was around the age of 4 or 5 he saw a “wonder” a magnetic compass. The invisible force that made the needle swing to the north impressed the young Einstein and convinced him there had to be something hidden behind things. At about the age of 10 young Albert met a man by the name of Max Talmud who was a jewish medical student that came from Poland. Every week Talmud would come over to the Einstein’...

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