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Albert Einstein was born on March 14 1879 in Ulm He was raised in Munich where his family owned a small electrical machinery shop Though he did not even begin to speak until he was three he showed a great curiosity of nature and even taught himself Euclidean geometry at the age of 12 Albert despised school life thinking it dull and boring so when his family decided to move to Milan Italy Einstein took the opportunity to drop out of school only 15 at the time After a year with his parents in Milan it became clear to him that he would have to make his own way in the world He finished secondary school in Arrau Switzerland and then enrolled at the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich School there was no less exciting for him than it was before and Einstein often cut classes using the time to study physics on his own or practice on his violin He graduated in 1900 but his professors did not think very highly of him and would not recommend him for a university jobEinstein worked for two years as a tutor and substitute teacher until in 1902 he found a position as an examiner in the Swiss patent office in Bern In 1903 he married a fellow classmate at the polytechnic Mileva Maric They later divorced after having two sons and Einstein remarriedThough Albert had written other papers the one he became most famous for was called On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies which explained a theory that became known as the special theory of relativity This was Einsteins third major paper to date and was published in 1905 Natural philosophers had been trying to understand the nature of matter and radiation since the time of Sir Isaac Newton Einstein had been considering the problem for over ten years when he realized that lay not in a theory of matter but one of measurement The crux
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