8 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. But he couldn't find his way home when he went for a walk.He dressed in wrinkled clothes and an old coat.He often forgot things. Once he used a $1,500 check to mark a page in a book. Then he lost the book! Einstein had other things to think about. Science was more important to him than the ordinary things in life.

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany. When he was a child, he learned things very slowly. Albert didn't speak until he was three years old. His parents worried about him. The principal of his school told his father, “Your son will never make a success of anything.” His grades in school were bad. The only thing he liked to do was to play the violin.

When he was 12, Albert began reading math and science books. He was excited about the things he learned. At age 17, he started college in Switzerland.Einstein wanted to be a teacher.He graduated in 1900, but he could not find a job. A friend helped him get a job in a government office.

While he was in school, Einstein became more and more interested in math and physics. He wanted to find the answers to questions about the universe. In 1905, Einstein published his ideas. At first, other scientists laughed at them. But Einstein's theory of relativity changed the world. Scientists looked at the universe in a new way. Because of Einstein, we have such things as computers, television, and space travel today.

Einstein quickly became famous. He traveled around the world and talked about his ideas. In 1922, he received the Nobel Prize for physics. In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Life became difficult for Jews like Einstein. So Einstein moved to America. He lived and taught in Princeton, New Jersey, for 22 years until he died in 1955. He once said, “ The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein never did.