Albert Einstein : Lifeline

- ALBERT EINSTEIN -
1879-1955

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT's relativity."

"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty ... We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."

- ALBERT EINSTEIN -
1879-1955

"I want to know God's thoughts ..... the rest are details.."

EINSTEIN'S LIFELINE
1879: Albert Einstein is born to Hermann Einstein (a
featherbed salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm,
Germany.
1884: Around this time, Albert receives his first
compass, beginning his quest to investigate the
natural world.

1889: At age 10, Albert sets into a program of self
education and reads as much about science as he
can.

1894: The Einsteins move from Munich to Pavia,
Italy and Albert, 15, stays on in Munich to finish the
school year. Albert lasts only a term on his own and
follows his family to Pavia.

1895: Albert attempts to skip high school by taking
an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top
technical university, but he fails the arts portion. His
family sends him to the Swiss town of Aarau to
finish high school.

1896: Albert graduates from high school at the age
of 17 and enrolls at the ETH (the Federal
Polytechnic) in Zurich.

1898: Albert falls in love with Mileva Maric, a
Hungarian classmate at the ETH.

1900: Albert graduates from the ETH.

1901: Albert becomes a Swiss citizen. Unemployed,
he searches for work. He and Mileva meet in
northern Italy for a tryst. Mileva becomes pregnant.
In the fall, Albert finds work in Schaffhausen,
Switzerland as a tutor. Mileva, visibly pregnant,
moves to Stein Am Rhein, three miles upriver.
Mileva then moves to Hungary to give birth to their
baby at her parent's home. Albert moves to Bern.

1902: In January, Mileva gives birth to their
daughter, Lieserl, whom they eventually put up for
adoption. She reportedly becomes ill and then all
record of her disappears. Albert takes a job at the
Swiss Patent Office. Hermann Einstein becomes ill
and dies.

1903: Albert and Mileva marry in January

1904: Mileva gives birth to their first son, Hans
Albert.

1905: "Annus Mirabilis" -- Einstein's "Miracle
Year": his Special Theory of Relativity is born. June
30th, Einstein, submits his paper, "On the
Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" to the leading
German physics journal. At age 26, he applies his
theory to mass and energy and formulates the
equation e=mc2.

1906: Still living in Bern, Einstein continues as an
Examiner at the Swiss Patent Office.

1907: Einstein begins applying the laws of gravity to
his Special Theory of Relativity.

1910: Son Eduard is born.

1911: The Einsteins move to Prague where Albert is
given a full professorship at the German University
there. Albert is the youngest to attend the
invitation-only Solvay Conference in Brussels, the
first world physics conference.

1912: The Einsteins move to Zurich where Albert is
given a position as a professor of Theoretical
Physics at the ETH.

1913: Einstein works on his new Theory of Gravity.

1914: Einstein becomes director of the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor of
theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. The
family moves there in April, but Mileva and the sons
return to Zurich after 3 months. The divorce
prodeedings begin. In August, World War I begins.

1915: Einstein completes the General Theory of
Relativity.

1917: Einstein collapses and, near death, falls
seriously ill. He is nursed back to health by his
cousin, Elsa. He publishes his first paper on
cosmology.

1919: Albert marries Elsa. May 29, a solar eclipse
proves Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
works.

1922: Is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for
1921.

1927: Attends fifth Solvay Conference and begins
developing the foundation of quantum mechanics
with Bohr.

1928: Einstein begins pursing his idea of a unified
field theory.

1932: Einstein is 53 and at the height of his fame.
Identified as a Jew, he begins to feel the heat of
Nazi Germany.

1933: Albert and Elsa set sail for the United States.
They settle in Princeton, New Jersey where he
assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.

1936: Elsa dies after a brief illness.

1939: World War II begins. Einstein writes a
famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
warning of the possibility of Germany's building an
atomic bomb and urging nuclear research.

1940: Einstein becomes an American citizen; retains
Swiss citizenship.

1949: Mileva dies.

1955: Einstein dies of heart failure on April 16.

- ALBERT EINSTEIN -
1879-1955

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."

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