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Hi, sorry for not posting anything for the past few days. I’ve been busy with stuff and researching for new topic to put here. Anyway, today I feel like a historian, so I’m gonna tell you the history of a brilliant scientist, Albert Einstein. Einstein is so famous till the word Einstein is used to describe a genius, regardless of what field they’re in. Though he was a brilliant scientist, not that many people really understand how his life was. So here, I’m hoping that you guys can use his life story as your motivation, whatever.

Einstein was born in March 1879, in Ulm, located under the German Empire during that time. During his early childhood, Einstein had some difficulties in speaking. He attended a Catholic elementary school when he was five and three years later, he was transferred to Luitpold Gymnasium where he received more advance primary and secondary education.

As he grows up, Einstein showed his talent in a few key subjects especially Mathematics. A Jewish medical student, Max Talmud who lived with the Einsteins for 6 years, was the one who guided Einstein through many secular educational interests. In 1894, his father’s company lost in the war of currents to AC (the company was based on DC at this moment of time), forcing them to move to other places to survive. Einstein, refusing to follow his family, stays at Munich to finish his study. A year later, Einstein withdrew to join his family in Pavia in which he sent an application for ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. He failed his entrance exam and his family sent him to Aarau, northen Switzerland to let him finish his secondary school. At age 17, he graduated and at 1896, he enrolled in four year mathematics and physics teaching diploma at a polytechnic in Zurich.

After graduated, Einstein had difficulties in securing a job and luckily, his classmate’s father secured him a job in a patent office. But it was at this office Einstein develop a thought experiment that allows him to come up with his brilliant idea, E=MC2. To make a long story short, after his first publication of his formula, Einstein was still stranded in the patent office because as a real historian puts it “The idea of Einstein’s formula is too large for anyone in that era to understand even the slightest concept of it.” But after a few months (or years, I forgot) scientists from all over the world had started to understand his idea. It was after this moment; Einstein was recognized as the greatest scientist in that era.

The year where Einstein became famous is 1905. The term “Annus Mirabilis” was given to this year simply to recognize Einstein’s publication of four groundbreaking papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian movement, special relativity and matter and energy equivalence. Einstein won a Nobel Prize in 1921 not because of his relativity theory, but for his work in photoelectric effect, even decades after his announcement of relativity theory, people still had hard time understanding it.

Eintein died in 1955 being a US citizen. You can read the part where the war breaks down, the Nazis and Jews thingy, a conference in Berlin, his migration to US and all related stuff in here. It’s not because I don’t want to tell the stories myself, but if I did, this would be a very long post and I know you also have some stuff to do other than reading this post. But for you to be able to read it until here, I salute you because of your perseverance. Thank you for reading and hopefully you get something meaningful from this story.