Albert Einstein

greatest achievement

he dicovered e=mc

early career

he had a hard time getting into a collage because he had quit high school

childhood

he refused to do homework and got bad grades and was very shy

Einstein, however, had a question. It had bothered him for ten years, from the time he was a 16-year-old student in Aarau, Switzerland, until one fateful evening in May 1905. Walking home from work, Einstein fell into conversation with Michele Besso, a fellow physicist and his best friend at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, where they were both clerks. Einstein's question, in effect, added a complication to Galileo's imagery: What if the object descending from the top of the mast wasn't a rock but a beam of light?

Smithsonian, Jun2005, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p108

a 26-year-old clerk who only a couple of weeks earlier had submitted his doctoral thesis to the University of Zurich. Einstein would keep his day job at the patent office until 1909

Smithsonian, Jun2005, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p108

Einstein would write that two "wonders" deeply affected his early years. The first was his encounter with a compass at age five. He was mystified that invisible forces could deflect the needle. This would lead to a lifelong fascination with invisible forces. The second wonder came at age 12 when he discovered a book of geometry, which he devoured, calling it his "sacred little geometry book."

Britannica Biographies, 3/1/2012, p1

Einstein lived as a boy in Munich and Milan, continued his studies at the cantonal school at Aarau, Switzerland, and was graduated (1900) from the Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich.

Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, Feb2013, p1

Einstein continued to work on relativity in 1910 while he taught first at the University of Bern, and later at the University of Zurich.

History Remembers Scientists of the 20th Century, 2000, p2

Einstein showed in 1907 that mass is related to energy by the famous equation E=mc2, which indicates the enormous amount of energy that is stored as mass, some of which is released in radioactivity and nuclear reactions, for example in the sun.

Hutchinson's Biography Database, 2011, p1