EXPOSITION OF

ALBERT
EINSTEIN
STUDENT: DIEGO ALBERTO GARCA CORRALES
GRADE: 8B
TEACHER: ROSA
INSTITUTO ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT

BIOGRAPHY
Born in Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein had a
passion for inquiry that eventually led him to develop the special
and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize
for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect and
immigrated to the U.S. in the following decade after being targeted
by the Nazis. Einstein is generally considered the most influential
physicist of the 20th century, with his work also having a major
impact on the development of atomic energy. With a focus on
unified field theory during his later years, Einstein died on April 18,
1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Background and Early Life

Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germany, Albert Einstein grew up in
a secular Jewish family. His father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer
who with his brother founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a Munichbased company that manufactured electrical equipment. His mother, the former
Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein had one sister, Maja, born two
years after him.
Einstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich.
However, he felt alienated there and struggled with the institution's rigid
pedagogical style. He also had what were considered to be speech challenges,
though he developed a passion for classical music and playing the violin that would
stay with him into his later years. Most significantly, Einstein's youth was marked
by deep inquisitiveness and inquiry.

Resident of Switzerland
Einstein was eventually able to gain admission into the
Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, specifically
due to his superb mathematics and physics scores on the
entrance exam. He was still required to complete his preuniversity education first, and thus attended a high school
in Aarau, Switzerland helmed by Jost Winteler. Einstein
lived with the schoolmaster's family and fell in love with
Wintelers' daughter, Marie. Einstein later renounced his
German citizenship and became a Swiss citizen at the
dawn of the new century.

Marriage and Family

While attending school in Zurich, Einstein developed lasting friendships and
alliances, also meeting his future wife, Mileva Maric, a Serbian physics student.
After graduating from Polytechnic, Einstein faced major challenges in terms of
finding academic positions, having alienated some professors over not attending
class more regularly in lieu of studying independently. Meanwhile, Einstein
continued to grow closer to Maric, but his parents were strongly against the
relationship due her ethnic background. Nonetheless, Einstein continued to see
her, with the two developing a correspondence via letters in which he expressed
many of his scientific ideas. In 1902 the couple had a daughter, Lieserl, who
might have been later raised by Maric's relatives or given up for adoption. Her
ultimate fate and whereabouts remain a mystery.

Final Years and Legacy

On April 17, 1955, while working on a speech to honor
Israel's seventh anniversary, Einstein suffered an
abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was taken to the
University Medical Center at Princeton for treatment but
refused surgery, believing that he had lived his life and
was content to accept his fate. "I want to go when I want,"
he stated at the time. "It is tasteless to prolong life
artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do
it elegantly." Einstein died at the university medical center
early the next morningApril 18, 1955at the age of 76.

DESCRIPTION
Physical description
At the last part of his live Albert Einstein was medium
height, slim and white skin. Also he had a hooked nose ,
brown eyes, bushy eyebrows, lips a little bit thicks. He had
grey, short and a little bit wavy hair. Likewise he had
wrinkles, a few moles and a big moustache.
Regarding the personality
Albert Einstein was a comprehensive person. Also he was
pacifist, polite and a glad person. He liked the music and
the arts. In beliefs, he was agnostic.