Albert Einstein! (1879-1955)

Sham S. Misri

Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. An American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (Physics, 1921) was noted for his theories of relativity, which revolutionized human understanding of the nature of space and time and formed the theoretical basis for the exploitation of atomic energy.

Sham S Misri

Einstein was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could read. His teacher described him as a slow thinker and a daydreamer. At the dinner table one evening, he finally broke his long silence: "The soup is too hot," he complained. His parents, greatly relieved, asked him why he had never spoken before.

"Because," he replied, "up to now everything has been in order."

In 1898, young Albert Einstein applied for admission to the Munich Technical Institute - and was turned down. The reason? The young man, the Institute declared, "Showed no promise" as a student.

An average student at Zurich (Switzerland) who even failed to get admission to graduate school, Einstein was packed off to.................................
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