... subsided, and he became fascinated with the intrigue of math and science. He was eventually expelled from the Luitpold Gymnasium as being a disruptive influence. Einstein was eventually accepted into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute, in Zurich. Attending the Institute gave Albert the opportunity to meet other students that shared his curiosity. It was at the Institute that his interest turned mainly ... in 1901, but due to the lack of recommendations from his teachers, he was unable to get a university position. In that same year, he acquired Swiss citizenship. In 1902, Einstein ...

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... paper Albert formed the famous equation e=mc, which states energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Having been rejected for a teaching job, Albert decided to work for the Swiss Patent Office. His first academic appointment was in 1909 at the University of Zurich, then in 1911 he moved to the "German-speaking university at Prague,"" and in 1912 he ... returned to the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. Finally, he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin in 1913. In 1919 Albert received attention after a solar eclipse. During the ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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... ). After he received his teacher certificate, he looked for a job, but he got no appointment because he was a Jew. He became a Swiss citizen in 1901 when he secured a job as a patent examiner at the Switzerland Patent Office in Berne, Swiss (Thomas 302). He married in the same year a Serbian fellow student, Mileva Marec and had with her two sons, Albert Jr. and ... ...

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... sister, wondering "he'd ever make it-(Bodanis). Eventually prosperous times arrived for Albert Einstein. In 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he accepted a position as technical assistant in the Swiss patent office(Elsevier). But this was only the beginning of his career. In March 1905 he finally sent the article, on which he had been working tirelessly for six weeks ... though his immediate family wasn't observant, this meant that "he was immersed in a culture with different views about personal responsibility, justice, and belief in authority than the standard German, and Swiss co...

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... 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 ... ...

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... 1900, when he graduated he asked to be appointed as an assistant in the physics department but was refused. After his failed teaching efforts, Einstein went to work in the Swiss patent office. Einstein's job was to check the technical descriptions in the applications for some of the parents, he also found interest in looking over the inventors models. Einstein always ... ...

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... these new ideas, he was again forced to explore on his own. In 1900 he graduated from the Institute and then achieved citizenship to Switzerland. Einstein became a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office in 1902. This job had little to do with physics, but he was able to satiate his curiosity by figuring out how new inventions worked. The most important ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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