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The name Albert Einstein will forever be synonymous with the word genius.  Born on March 14th, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, Einstein was educated, had graduated, but was mostly self-taught.  He married his sweetheart Mileua Maric and together they had two sons.  They divorced in 1919 and he married his second cousin, Elsa Lowenthal that same year. 
 
Albert Einstein was a physicist.  His most profounding proposal came in 1905 with his theory of relativity.  He suggested that both time and space vary with circumstances instead of being absolute concepts.  In 1915 he perfected the theory with his equation E=mc2;.  People continued to be skeptical, however, until November of 1919 when the Royal Society of London announced that an experiment that was conducted confirmed Einstein’s predictions. 
 
He continued to travel and give lectures all over Europe until he finally immigrated to America.  He was offered a full time position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.  He continued to be largely involved in political activism until his death on April 18th, 1955 at age 76.  He will be remembered for his intelligence and for never hesitating to speak his mind.

Source:     Biography.com

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