English-A Truly Beautiful Mind
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Full name of the chapter
A Truly Beautiful Mind
Einstein's birth date and place
14 March 1879 in Ulm, Germany
Einstein's early speech delay
Began speaking at 2.5 years and repeated words
Einstein's childhood nickname
Brother Boring
Einstein's interest as a child
Mechanical toys
Quote on baby sister
"Fine, but where are her wheels?"
Einstein's school performance
Good marks but hated regimentation
Einstein left Munich school at age
15
Reason Einstein left school
Felt stifled and disliked discipline
Einstein's higher studies location
Zurich, Switzerland
University girlfriend and later wife
Mileva Maric
Reason Einstein liked Mileva
She was intelligent and like-minded
Einstein's secret drawer nickname
Bureau of theoretical physics
Einstein's famous formula
E = mc²
E = mc² full form
Energy = mass × speed of light²
Theory developed in 1905
Special Theory of Relativity
Einstein's job in 1902
Technical expert in a patent office in Bern
Einstein's Nobel Prize year
1921
Reason for Nobel Prize
Work on the photoelectric effect
Year of General Theory of Relativity
1915
Proof of theory
1919 solar eclipse
Einstein's migration to US
1933
Reason for leaving Germany
Hitler and Nazi rise
Letter to Roosevelt
Warned of atomic bomb risk
Result of letter
US began secret atomic bomb project
Einstein's reaction to bomb use
Shocked and advocated world peace
Year of Einstein's death
1955
Einstein's age at death
76
Einstein remembered as
Scientific genius and world citizen