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Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and went on to become one of the most famous scientists of all time for his theories of relativity and other important discoveries. He studied in Germany and Switzerland before working in a patent office while publishing groundbreaking papers on physics, including his famous equation relating energy and mass. Facing rise of Nazis, Einstein moved to the United States in 1932 and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He warned President Roosevelt about Nazi Germany's potential nuclear weapons program and later advocated against nuclear weapons after the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879 and went on to become one of the most famous scientists of all time for his theories of relativity and other important discoveries. He studied in Germany and Switzerland before working in a patent office while publishing groundbreaking papers on physics, including his famous equation relating energy and mass. Facing rise of Nazis, Einstein moved to the United States in 1932 and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He warned President Roosevelt about Nazi Germany's potential nuclear weapons program and later advocated against nuclear weapons after the bombing of Hiroshima.

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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was one of the most famous scientists of all time. He
developed the special and general theories of relativity and made many
other important discoveries.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. He grew up
in a secular Jewish family. His father was a salesman and engineer and his
mother was a housewife. Einstein had one sister, Maja, who was born two
years after him. He studied at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. He didn’t
like studying there. One teacher even told him that he would never get
anywhere. At this time, Einstein became interested in classical music and
he learned to play the violin. He was also interested in science.

In the 1890s, Einstein’s family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein started


studying at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich. His years in
Zürich were some of the happiest years of his life. He became friends with
many other students and met his future wife, Mileva Maric, a physics
student from Serbia.

Einstein finished his university studies and found work in a Swiss patent
office. In his free time, Einstein continued studying physics. He married
Mileva Maric in 1903, but the marriage was not a happy one. They divorced
in 1919 and Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal. In 1905, Einstein published
four important papers about physics. The fourth paper included the famous
equation E=mc2. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

From 1913 to 1933, Albert Einstein was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Physics in Berlin. He often travelled around the world and gave
talks about physics. While Einstein was travelling and speaking
internationally, the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful.
Einstein’s life was in danger. In 1932, he decided to leave Germany
forever. He moved to the United States and took on a position at the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey.

Einstein became an American citizen in 1935. In 1939, he and his friend


Leo Szilard wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They warned
him that the Nazis might be trying to create an atomic bomb. The United
States started a programme to create its own nuclear weapons. After
learning of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Einstein became active in trying
to stop future use of nuclear weapons. He also supported the civil rights of
African Americans. In 1952, he was offered to become the president of
Israel, but he respectfully declined.

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.


1 Read the text and answer the following questions.
1 What was Albert Einstein’s father’s job?
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2 What did Albert Einstein do after he finished his university studies?
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3 When did Albert Einstein get the Nobel Prize for Physics?
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4 Why did Einstein decide to leave Germany?
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5 When did Einstein become an American citizen?
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6 Why did Einstein write a letter to F. D. Roosevelt?
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7 What did Einstein do after he learned about the bombing of Hiroshima?
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2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?


1 Albert Einstein was older than his sister. _____
2 Albert Einstein didn’t enjoy studying at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. _____
3 Albert Einstein could play the violin. _____
4 Albert Einstein’s first wife was from Serbia. _____
5 Albert Einstein published his most famous equation in 1905. _____
6 Albert Einstein supported the civil rights of black people. _____
7 In 1952, Albert Einstein became the president of Israel. _____

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