Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

1. ChilHood

   • Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, at 11:30 am, in the Swabian city of Ulm, in southern Germany on the banks of the Danube, at No. 135 Bahnhofstrasse, which disappeared in World War II.
   • He was the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. According to the testimony of his maternal grandmother, Tette Koch, he was born too fat, with a swollen and slightly deformed head.

2. Studies

   • In elementary school the young Albert received Catholic instruction; the Jewish education required by the government for those of his condition had to be acquired in the family environment, despite the fact that his parents were agnostic. In those early years, Einstein showed an inordinate interest in the existence of God, which worried his people.
   • He soon toned down that initial passion, due to his early interest in scientific and philosophical readings, although the idea of God - "Spinoza's God" - always haunted him, and he even said that his scientific aspirations were "to know the thoughts of God".

3. Family

   • Mother and Father
     • Pauline Koch
     • Hermann Einstein
   • Sisters
     • Maja Einstein
   • Children
     • Eduard Einstein
     • Hans Albert Einstein
     • Lieserl Einstein

4. Contributions

   • Special relativity
     • General relativity
       • Photoelectric effect
         • Theory of relativity
           • Mass-Energy Equivalence
             • Planck's constant
               • Einstein field equations
                 • Quantum Mechanics
                   • Unified Field Theory