Albert Einstein Case

Albert Einstein

By: Ibrahim Adel

Albert Einstein is a theoretical physicist and one of the most important scientists in the history of the humanity. Einstein was born in Ulm in Germany in 1879. His father was a salesman and an engineer. Shortly after Einstein's birth, his family moved to Munich where his father and uncle founded a company manufactured electrical equipments.

Although Einstein was a Jewish, he went to a Catholic elementary school from the age of five to the age of eight. But he received Jewish religious instruction as well as violin lessons at home. At the age of eight he went to the "Luitpold Gymnasium" and attended it for seven years. It was one of the best schools in his town, and there received an advanced primary and secondary education. Although the "Luitpold Gymnasium" was named after a prince, its name was changed to the "Albert Einstein Gymnasium" after he won the Nobel Prize.

As a son of an engineer, Einstein's favorite game when he was a child was building models and assembling mechanical devices. He was also highly interested in mathematics. When Einstein became ten years old, his brother befriended a poor Jewish medical student named Max Talmey, who became a friend of the Einstein family. Max Talmey admired Einstein's extraordinary intelligence and started to give him worthy collections of scientific, mathematical and philosophical books. Max Talmey also used to talk to the kid Einstein about these sciences for five years, during his weekly regular visits to the Einstein family.

After his business failure in 1894, Einstein's father decides to move with the family to Italy. In 1895, Einstein joined a secondary school in Switzerland for one year to continue his education. In 1896 he started his higher education at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. Einstein received the Zurich Polytechnic teaching diploma as a mathematics teacher in 1900 and he started studying his PhD in the same year. In 1901, he got the Swiss citizenship.

After graduation, Einstein worked at a patent office and taught at a technical college in Switzerland. In 1906, Einstein got his PhD from the University of Zurich. The research paper of his PhD included the roots of the theories that he took the Nobel Prize for. During the same year, Einstein published four other research papers on photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy. Those papers brought him an extraordinary fame and the notice of the international academic world. The year 1906 is called Einstein's miracle year. In 1908 he became a leading scientist and a lecturer at the University of Bern. In 1916, he became the president of the German Physical Society. Although today Einstein is widely known for his two theories