By Darragh Healy 4 form 2

1. By Darragh Healy 4 form 2

2. Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. Throughout his life, Einstein had two wives and three children and lived in many countries (Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and the U.S.).

3. He went to the University of Zurich. His great intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with the word genius.

4. Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works . • Einstein supported defending the Allied forces. Albert Einstein

5. He was visiting the U.S. when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and did not get back to Germany, where he had been a Professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences.

6. With the British philosopher Bertrand Russell, Einstein singed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons.

7. He settled in the U.S. , becoming an American citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the potential development of an “extremely powerful bomb of a new type” and recommending that the U.S. begin similar research. This eventually led to what would become the Manhattan Project

8. Einstein invented the general theory of relativity one of the two pillars of modern physics. • Relativity is his most famous invention but there are others such as: ‘Brownian movement’ , ‘ The quantum theory of light’ , ‘The link between mass and energy’. • He also supported Zionism, the idea of the creation of a homeland for Jews in Palestine. • In 1921 he received the Nobel Prize in physics. Achievements

10. Einstein died on the 18/4/1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.