... of a family disgrace(source 3)." Albert, on the other hand was on the brink of his most productive scientific years and at the age of 23 was employed by the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. On January 6, 1903 Mileva and Albert married at Bern City Hall. He was 24 and she 28. It was known that when they proceeded to live ... together following the marriage their daughter did not join them. Her whereabouts will continue to be a mystery. As their marriage began Albert was working six days a week at the Swiss Patent Office and spending his free time on physics. Mileva was having a terrible time...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... other students' respect for the teacher. The fifteen-year-old boy did quit school in mid-term to join his parents. In 1895, he took the entrance examination for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -- and he failed. Would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at the EidgenÖssische Technische Hochschule in Zurich. He was ... in Aarau; here his teachers were humane and his ideas were set free. Einstein renounced German citizenship in 1896. He did not even apply for Swiss citizenship until 1899; he became a citizen in 1901. In 1902, Einstein worked at a pa...

• Word Count: 1034
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... in High School, Albert dropped out to join his parents in Milan, Italy, where they had moved because of business failure. In 1896 Einstein was able to enroll in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, after making up a few subject deficiencies. It is here that Einstein met a classmate, Mileva, who would be his future wife. Albert did not like ... up for adoption before Einstein could even see her. That same year, Einstein's dad died of sickness. Einstein finally decided to marry Mileva and he later secured a job at the Swiss patent office in Bern, as a patent examiner, his ...

• Word Count: 1209
• Approx Pages: 5

... Italy with the rest of his family. The next year he tried to skip high school altogether, needing more of a challenge in his education, and took an entrance exam to a Swiss technical university. He did not pass this test all because he failed the art portion of the exam. In 1886, at the age of 17 Albert finally graduated from High ... of Germany building an atomic bomb. He urged the President to be aware of some of his nuclear research. Finally in 1940 he became an US citizen, but retained his Swiss Citizenship too. At this Point in his life there was no question that he was one of the ...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... school in Germany and joined his family in Italy. He finished high school in Switzerland; were he graduated with a teaching degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, however he did not find a job until 1902 at the Swiss patent office. He worked there for seven years. In 1903 he married Maria Maric. He had three children, 2 boys and one girl. Liserl ... ...

• Word Count: 556
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... in July 1900. He then applied, without success, for assistantships at the Polytechnische Schule and other universities. In 1900 he cast off his German citizenship and formally applied for the Swiss one which he was granted on February 21, 1901.Between May 1901 and January 1902 he was teacher in Winterthur and Schaffhausen. Afterwards he moved to the ... Swiss capital Bern. In order to make a living, he gave private lessons in mathematics and physics. From 1902 to 1909 Einstein worked as an examiner, which allowed him more free time ... ...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... tring to prove everyone different. Albert knew he wasn't dumb he knew he was different and learned a different method than the other children. His family decided to move Albert the Swiss town to finnish his studies in high school. This is how Albert had started his study in Mathimatics. Albert once said "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to ... on your own. 1986 Einstein graduates from high school at the age of seventeen, and enrolls at the ETH in Zurich. Pg.3 1900 Einstein graduates from the ETH. Albert becomes a swiss citizen. He is unemployed and starts to search for a well pai...

• Word Count: 1127
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... 1895, Einstein failed the entrance examination to Eidenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich. In 1896, Einstein renounced his German citizenship, but it was not until 1899 that he applied for Swiss citizenship, which he did not receive until 1901. Following his failing to get into ETH, Einstein attended Aarou a secondary school. While attending Aarou, he wrote an essay, in which he ... ...

• Word Count: 436
• Approx Pages: 2

... with him. Later Einsteins parents moved to Milan, but left him in Munchen as to finish his schooling. When Einstein turned 16, he was determined to get into the SFPI (Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute). But Albert was failing Biology, Zoology, his language calss, and the works at the Institute, so for him they suggested prepatory school in Aarau, Switzerland. He did ... ...

• Word Count: 392
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

... theory of relativity. The theory wasn't understood because of its complicated mathematical argument. Einstein became a lecturer at the University of Bern in 1908. Einstein worked as an examiner at the Swiss Patent Office. As him being a Patent examiner he got freer time which he used to study scientific investigations. In this time he developed theories we now know in modern time ... ...

• Word Count: 580
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School