Albert Einstein and Relativity for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities and Thought Experiments
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E d 1876 August 8 parents Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch marry March 14 Albert Einstein born in Ulm 1879 Germany 1881 November 18 sister Maria Maja Einstein born 1887 Michelson Morley experiment fails to show the presence of an ether 1894 The Einsteins move to Italy 1895 Albert attends high school in Aarau 1896 1896 Einstein attends the Zurich Polytechnic 1900 Institute 1902 January Lieserl Einstein born in Novi Sad Austria Hungary June 23 Einstein begins work at the Swiss Patent Office October
10 Hermann Einstein dies in Milan 1903 January 6 Einstein and Mileva Marić marry in Bern 1904 May 14 Hans Albert Einstein born in Bern 1905 Special Theory of Relativity published dur ing Einstein's Miracle Year 1909 Einstein becomes an associate professor at the University of Zurich 1910 July 28 Eduard Einstein born in Zurich 1911 The Einsteins move to Prague where Ein stein teaches at German University The first Solvay Conference held in Brussels Belgium 1912 The Einsteins return to Zurich when Ein stein accepts position at the Zurich Poly technic Institute 1914 The Einsteins move to Berlin Germany The Einsteins separate and Mileva returns to Switzerland with Hans Albert and Eduard World War I breaks out 1915 Einstein announces the General Theory of Relativity to the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences 1916 General Theory of Relativity published in the Annalender Physik 1918 1919 November 11 World War I ends with the signing of the Armistice February 14 Albert and Mileva divorce May 29 eclipse confirms General Theory of Relativity
June 2 Albert and Elsa Löwenthal marry in Berlin Einstein adopts Elsa's daughters Ilse and Margot November 6 Astronomer Royal Frank Dyson announces Eddington's findings February 20 Pauline Einstein dies Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for 1920 1922 1933 physics of 1921 Hitler comes to power in Germany while Einstein is in the United States 1936 December 20 Elsa Einstein dies in Prince ton 1939 August 2 Einstein sends a letter to Presi dent Roosevelt encouraging the develop ment of the atomic bomb writes another letter March 7 1940 September 1 World War II breaks out when Germany invades Poland 1940 October 1 Einstein becomes a US citizen 1941 December 7 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor the United States enters World War II the next day 1945 May 7 Germany surrenders to the Allies August 6 and 9 the United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasa ki Japan August 15 Japan surrenders and World War II ends 1946 Einstein named president of the Emer gency Committee of Atomic Scientists 1948 August 4 Mileva Marić Einstein dies in
