![]() ![]() ![]() Albert Einstein since I was a little boy growing up in Oak Park, Michigan, in the 1960s. READ MORE: How Galileo’s groundbreaking works got bannedĪs a point of disclosure, I have been fascinated with Dr. One such intimate was Charlie Chaplin - then one of the most famous men in the world. He spent the rest of his life in Princeton, expounding on relativity, war, and peace, forging ahead in his research, and hob-knobbing with all types of celebrities and leaders. The combination of Einstein’s brilliance, engaging personality and heroic stance against a murderous despot made him one of the first scientific stars of the 20th century. As he told the press in 1933, “I do not want to remain in a state where individuals are not conceded equal rights before the law for freedom of speech and doctrine.” That same year, the German Student Union instigated the burning of Einstein’s books, along with the works of other prominent Jewish writers, including Sigmund Freud and Franz Kafka. Even the Prussian Academy of Sciences, his former academic home, denounced his scientific work and expelled him.įrom England, Einstein sailed to the United States, escaping likely death. His home was ransacked by Nazi brownshirts on the premise that he was hiding a large cache of weapons in his basement. As he traveled, first to Belgium and then England, he learned of the Nazi propaganda offensive against his work and character. One of them included the famous equation E=mc2 another described the photoelectric effect, a discovery that won him a Nobel Prize in 1921.Īfter working as a professor and scholar in Zurich, Prague and Berlin, he was offered a prestigious appointment in 1932 at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, where he hoped to split his time between Berlin and the United States. His first wife, Mileva Marić, helped him plot out and write these papers without attribution or credit. Everything began to change after 1905 when the 26-year-old clerk published his first four papers in Annalen der Physik. He became a Swiss citizen during this period and completed his Ph.D. READ MORE: The day Marie Curie got snubbed by the French science worldĮinstein spent the first decade of the 20th century bouncing from job to job, tutoring and serving as a low-level patent officer in Bern. At 12, he loved to read what he called his “sacred little geometry book.” That year, Einstein was given a compass, which he found captivating, thus beginning his lifelong exploration into the unseen forces guiding the world and universe. The boy did not speak full sentences until he was 5 years old and his parents worried that he might be developmentally delayed. (The late stages of this sexually transmitted infection can lead to aortic aneurysms.) Einstein may have been a man of many affairs, but his autopsy revealed no evidence of syphilis in his body or brain.Įinstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany into a secular, Jewish family. Soon after his death - an event that made front-page news around the world - rumors began to spread that Einstein’s death was caused by syphilis. Photo by George Rinhart/ Corbis via Getty Images ![]()
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