Albert Einstein was born around 11:30 a.m. on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. As a baby, he had quite a large head, and he didn’t speak until the age of three. When Einstein went to school, he loved math and hated the school’s strict rules. Starting at age 10, Einstein was tutored every Thursday night by a local medical student, who gave Einstein advanced science and philosophy books. From these books, Einstein taught himself geometry and calculus. In 1896, Einstein attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School and, after graduating, he took a job at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland. He continued to work on physics and also fell in love with former classmate Mileva Marić. Einstein and Marić were married in 1903 and had two sons, Hans Albert in 1904 and Eduard in 1910.
In 1905, Einstein published four groundbreaking papers. One of these papers contained a successful argument for the now-famous equation E=MC2, which describes the relationship between the matter and energy of particles. These papers made him rather famous and he was hired as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich in 1909.
The University of Berlin in Germany offered Einstein a position in 1914, allowing him to focus solely on research. However, Einstein’s family was unhappy with living in Berlin, and he and his wife officially divorced in 1919. 1914 also saw the beginning of World War I, and as a great pacifist, Einstein protested the war, using his fame to encourage peace. The following year, Einstein published his most well-known work “The General Theory of Relativity”; a theory of gravitation which states that space is curved by objects that are gravitationally attracted to each other.