The Interview with Albert Einstein

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The Interview with Albert Einstein

• By Amanda Overmyer

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Introduction

• I am here today with one of the worlds most
  renowned scientists, Albert Einstein. Known for
  his intuition, and curiosity, Einstein made
  tremendous contirbutions to the scientific world.

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• Well, I was born in Ulm Germany March 14,
  1897. I was the first child of my parents,
  Harmann and Pauline Einstein. My abilities
  surpassed other kids in a lot of area including
  mathematics, by the age of 7. From that time on,
  I went to a Catholic primary school in Munich,
  where my family moved on to a year after my birth.

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• In the age of 15, I left school in Germany
  because of bad grades in several subjects, such
  as history and languages, and moved to Milan
  following my family, which moved there recently
  because of my fathers business.

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• Early in 1905 I published a thesis, A New
  Determination of Molecular dimensions in the
  prestigious physics monthly Analen der Physik
  which won my Ph.D. from the University and was
  the beginning of the end for the old view of the
  universe.

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• In 1905, I published four more important papers
  after my first, one of these, Zur Elektrodynamik
  bewegter Koerper (On the Electrodynamics of
  Moving Bodies) is by now better known as the
  theory of relativity. This completely changed
  the way scientists saw the world forever.

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• After I graduated the secondary school at Arau, I
  became a secondary school teacher of mathematics
  and physics. By then I had given up German
  citizenship in favor of Swiss, to avoid the
  draft. I worked about two months as a math
  teacher, before I was employed as examiner at the
  Swiss patent office in Bern.

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• Having now a certain economic security I married
  Mileva Maric, my university girlfriend, three
  years later. I became a father in 1904 when my
  wife gave birth to my son Hans Albert.
  Unfortunately, the relationship took a turn for
  the worse when we went through a year separation
  which ended in divorce in 1919.n

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• About 1912, I began a new phase of my
  gravitational research, with the help of my
  mathematician friend Marvel Grossman, by phrasing
  my work in terms of the tensor calculus of Tullio
  Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricfci-Curbastro.

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• I returned to Gernamy in 1914 yet I did not
  reapply for German citizenship. I was one of the
  handful of German professors who remained a
  pacifist and did not support Germanys war aims.

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• In 1921, the Nobel Prize was awarded to me, not
  for the theory of relativity but for my 1905 work
  on the photoelectric effect.

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Works Cited

• Dictionary of Scientific Biography
• Volume 3 and 4 pages 312-332
• Martin J. Klein and Nandor L. Balazs
• Editor in Chief - Charles Coulston Gillispie
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