Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was a German-born American physicist best known for being the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for this hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is probably the most well known scientist of the 20th century.
Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14, 1879 and spent his youth in Munich, Germany. Einstein was an amazing child and didn’t speak till the age of three. Despite this he even showed brilliancy as a child and understood difficult mathematical concepts. Around the age of 12, he taught himself geometry. This was an amazement to those around him.
Einstein hated school in Munich and when his family left Germany for Milan, Italy dropped out. At this time he was only 15 years old and thought this suited him the best. He spent one year in Milan with is family, and...