Albert Einstein was a physicist and professor who was born in
Ulm, Germany in 1879. From an early age, Albert Einstein was
interested in learning.
At the age of ten, he set up a program of study for himself,
reading extensively about science. He also studied violin and piano,
establishing a love of music that would carry into adulthood.
At age 17, Einstein graduated high school and enrolled in the Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. After graduation, Einstein spent two years
looking for teaching work, finally taking a job at the Swiss Patent Office.
In 1905, Einstein was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Zurich. That same year, he published four
important papers on physics, including the one containing his famous E = mc2 equation. He began to
attain recognition for his work, and was hired as a lecturer at the University of Bern in Switzerland in 1908.
From there, he went on to more and greater positions, refining and building on his theories along the way.
In 1919, he married Elsa Löwenthal, and in 1933, they emigrated to the United States to escape the
dangers of Nazi Germany. They settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where Einstein took a post at the
Institute for Advanced Study. He continued to work on his theories for the remainder of his life,
and his work remains some of the most important in the history of theoretical physics.
