Einsteins

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             Albert, in his early years, was a very shy but curious kid .
             that showed very little aptitude for anything. In elementary .
             school, Albert was such an under achiever in all subjects .
             other than math and science that his parents suspected that .
             he might be retarded. Even though he hated memorization and .
             obedience to teachers and strict rules, he got generally .
             satisfying grades, especially in math and physics.(Bodanis 5).
             After graduating from the Institute of Technology in .
             Zurich, Einstein tried to find a university job. Even his .
             father started sending mails to his son's professors, .
             begging them to give his son a job at university. But .
             the answer was clear; no. All of his professors turned him .
             down due to his lack of conventional traits to be a .
             scholar(Daneis).In the meantime he managed to get a few .
             articles published, but they weren't especially impressive. .
             He tried to show that "the forces controlling the way liquid .
             rises up in a drinking straw were similar to Newton's laws .
             of gravitation-(Bodanis 7). But he could not quite manage to .
             get these formulas to work, and he got no response from .
             other physicists. He wrote to his 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, to Annalen de .
             physic to be published, filling some thirty-some pages. It .
             was the start of his theory of relativity. He admitted to .
             another friend that he was a little unsure about the whole .
             theory:.
             The idea is amusing and enticing, but whether the .
             Lord is laughing at it and has played a trick on .
             me--that I cannot know. The results of an electrodynamic investigation recently published by .