Time Line of Einstein's Life
1879 |
Einstein born in Ulm, Germany |
1894 |
Moves to Pavia Italy |
1896 |
Graduates from High School and enrolls in technical school at Zurich |
1900 |
Graduates from Technical school |
1901 |
Becomes Swiss citizen. |
1902 |
First child born and put up for adoption. Takes job at Swiss patent office |
1903 |
Marries Mileva Maric |
1904 |
First son, Hans Albert, born |
1905 |
Formulates e=mc2 |
1910 |
Son Eduard born |
1911 |
Moves to Prague and given proffessorship at German University there |
1912 |
Becomes proffessor at technical school in Zurich |
1914 |
Becomes proffesor at the University of Berlin. Divorces Mileva. |
1915 |
Completes General Theory of Relativity |
1919 |
Marries his cousin Elsa |
1922 |
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics |
1928 |
Begins pursuing the unified field theory |
1933 |
Moves to Princeton, New Jersey after leaving Nazi Germany. Takes a post at the Institute for advanced study. |
1936 |
Elsa dies |
1939 |
Writes letter to FDR about the possibility of Nuclear weapons |
1940 |
Becomes American citizen |
April 16, 1955 |
Einstein dies of heart failure |