Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein was a great scientist and physicist. From his childhood to the end of his life he was interested in science because when he was young, he couldn’t explain some things which pushed him towards science. He was a true genius according to his grades and other people who noticed it and could prove it. He always went ahead of other people which made it easier and more advanced at things that would help him in the future. The push towards science came from his childhood, to the time when he worked hard in school and college, and when he worked, discovered amazing things, and how he succeeded his life.

His childhood is where he started seeing things that amazed him and. (5)When Albert was six he went to “Peterschule”, a catholic elementary school in Munich. When his mother looked at his grades, he was on the top of the class. He then moved to the Luitpold grammar school in 1888. There as time went by, the problems with teachers got more and more severe. (4) He was very slow at learning words which made his parents worry and even ask consultants. He had big questions towards simple things such as time and space that were taken as granted by adults. Even though he didn’t work or study science, he found more and more things he couldn’t explain. (1, 2, 3) For example: when he was five years old, his father had a pocket compass. What Einstein was amazed by was the invisible force pulling the needle toward north. Later in life he looked back on this moment. (1,4) Later when he was older, a wide belief that Einstein failed his math courses spread, however when someone asked him (when he was older) he laughed and said that he mastered many differential calculus and integral calculus before he was fifteen! When he was twelve, he ...

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