ALBERT EINSTEIN

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. He was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Einstein
was an immigrant who went to the U.S. years ago. 1) .......................... . However, when he was at school, he wasn’t very successful. His favorite subjects were math and physics, but never liked the discipline at school. As he had difficulty memorizing the words, the teachers thought that 2) .......................... . He left school without receiving his diploma, but he later passed the exam to enter the Swiss Polytechnic Institute.

After he graduated from the institute 3) .......................... . Since he couldn’t find a job in that field, he began to work in a patent office as a technical expert. He began to write about the basic structure of the universe when he was 26. He tried to explain the relationship of space and time with his theory of relativity. His work also had a great impact
4) .......................... . After that, they offered him a position at the University of Berlin but he had to leave the country in 1935 when anti-Jewish groups interrupted him.

He became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and he received many job offers. Then he accepted a position at Princeton University in New Jersey. He worked there 5) .......................... . Today, he is known for his theory of relativity and the equation E=MC2. Canadian scientists studied Einstein’s brain and found that he was so intelligent because his parietal lobe was 15 percent wider than that of a normal person.