Albert Einstein's Accomplishments

The face of physics was revolutionized by a man’s outrageous idea of relativity. He did what no one else had done by making an equation that was simple and true connecting energy and mass. He became known for his intelligence and his outspoken views, but the genius behind the theorem is what makes him so amazing. To better understand Albert Einstein, a person should examine his personal life, achievements, and his brain.

Albert Einstein’s personal life was not what some would expect to be the life of a genius. He was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany (“Einstein, Albert” 206). When Albert became old enough, he started going to the local school. He was not well liked by his teachers, and they did not considered him a genius. Later, one

In college Albert met Mileva Maric (Brian 22). She gave birth to a daughter out of wedlock, but no one knows what happened to the girl (Brian 83). The couple married in 1903 and had two sons (Brian 31). His oldest son became successful, but his younger son had a mental breakdown at the age of twenty­two and had requested shock treatment. The young man was institutionalized off and on throughout his life (Brian 70). For the rest of his Albert would always have women around him even if they were not his wife. None of them claimed of any inappropriate involvement (Brian 26­27). He finally divorced Mileva and remarried to his cousin Elsa, a widow from World War I, in 1919 (Klein 312). When Hitler came to power, Albert had to move for fear of his life because he was a Jew. So he took a job at Princeton. Albert Einstein became an American citizen in 1940 (Klein 313). He lived there till he passed. Einstein knew by the end of his life that he was going to die but would not receive treatment to prolong life when it offered. The day before he died, Albert did more math work and had conversations with his son, Hans, about math. He died of an aortic aneurysm on April 18, 1955 (Isaacson 542­543).

It was Einstein’s achievements that gave him international recognition. The first time he thought of relativity was when he was four. One day he was sick so his father gave him a compass. He was amazed by the unknown force that kept the needle pointing in one direction

After he died, he was to be cremated (Isaacson 544). During the autopsy though, Thomas Harvey took his brain without permission. The next day his son revealed this to his class. The family soon found out and was not happy about it but eventually gave up on the ordeal (Isaacson 545). In the end, the only real difference that was found in his brain was that his brain had a shorter grove in the parietal lobe and this lobe was 15% larger than a normal one (Isaacson 547). People speculate that he had Dyslexia but according to Brian, he had no apparent problems reading math equations (3). Now many people including the writer of this research paper believe that he was on the low spectrum of autism. People with autism are late talkers, a perfectionist in some areas, tunes out when being disciplined, outstanding in some areas of school but not others, have obsession over an idea or thing, and are typically alone or over friendly (“Characteristics Found on the Autism Spectrum”). See, Albert as a kid would give a test run of answering a question by whispering it to himself. Also teachers would discipline for answering questions wrong by a rap to the knuckles so they would find albert daydreaming a lot. Then he also gave things that seemed kind of interesting to him and obsessive amount of time to it