CHAPTER ONE 4 A GREAT MIND Albert Einstein was one of the great est physicists in history Physicists are scientists who study matter which makes up all physical objects They study the forces pushes and pulls that act on matter Ein stein’s ideas led to new ways of thinking about the universe Albert Einstein sits on a train in Germany in the early 1930s
5 Einstein was born in Ulm Germany in 1879 to a loving Jewish family From his early childhood onward it was clear that Einstein learned in a special way His dreamy stubborn personality did not fit with the strict German culture of the time His need to do things his own way often got him in trouble However his unique mind pro duced thoughts that changed the world In one year he wrote four papers that changed physics forever He won a Nobel Prize the Einstein’s birthplace in Ulm Germany A GREAT MIND
