As a child Albert Einstein showed difficulties with speech. Although he did do well academically and was outstanding in mathematics. You might be surprised to know that Albert Einstein failed an important exam. That exam would have admitted him into a Swiss school where he would have become an electrical engineer. However, this failure led him into the fields of Mathematics and Physics. He did not look at this failed exam as a missed opportunity. He saw it as a doorway to another exciting life. He returned later and received a Bachelor’s degree from the same university.

Einstein was hated in his homeland. Albert gave up his German citizenship after his family moved to Italy when the family business went bankrupt. Even after World War I ended and he returned to Germany, he never applied for German citizenship. After WWI, German scientists were not allowed into the international science meetings. However, Albert was permitted because of his status of traveling Jew with a Swiss passport.

During his career, Einstein theorized about gravity, won the Nobel peace prize and created his theory of relativity. This theory was proven later by an eclipse. Shortly after WWII began, Einstein wrote a letter of warning to Roosevelt, the President of the United States. He warned Roosevelt of the research Germany was doing concerning the atom bomb. Because of his letter, research began, leading to the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project led to the development of the atom bombs that were dropped on Japan.

Albert suffered much in his personal life. He divorced his first wife shortly before World War I began, after having three children. During his marriage with Mileva, he applies his theory of electrodynamics of moving bodies and develops the formula e=mc2. After the divorce, he collapses and is nursed back to health by his cousin, Elsa whom he later marries. They eventually move to the United States where Elsa dies of a short illness. After receiving his United States citizenship, Albert dies of a heart attack on April 16, 1955.