THE MAN WHO BENT UNIVERSE

A mini biography of Albert Einstein, highlighting the key moments of his life and legacy:

Born: March 14, 1879 – Ulm, Germany
Died: April 18, 1955 – Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Einstein was born into a Jewish family in Germany.
As a child, he showed an early interest in mathematics and physics but was slow to speak — prompting myths about poor performance in school (which aren’t true).
He studied at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich and later became a Swiss citizen.

While working at the Swiss Patent Office, he wrote four groundbreaking papers in 1905, known as the Annus Mirabilis (Miracle Year) papers. These included:
- The Photoelectric Effect (which later earned him the Nobel Prize)
- Special Relativity (including the famous equation E = mc²)
- Brownian motion and mass-energy equivalence
In 1915, he completed his General Theory of Relativity, radically altering our understanding of gravity and spacetime.

Einstein became world-famous in the 1920s and used his influence to promote pacifism, civil rights, and scientific collaboration.
A Jewish intellectual, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and moved to the U.S., where he worked at Princeton University.
Though a pacifist, he warned the U.S. about Nazi Germany's atomic ambitions, indirectly leading to the Manhattan Project.

Einstein’s work transformed modern physics, laying the groundwork for quantum mechanics, cosmology, and space-time research.
He became a global symbol of genius, as well as a humanitarian voice for peace, education, and freedom of thought.

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