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Albert Einstein was a problematic student as a child. He was bored in school and often fell asleep in class. His teacher shouted at him, calling him "lazy" and saying he would "never get anywhere in life." Albert's parents moved him to a different school, but he remained unstimulated. He later excelled at advanced mathematics and physics, but dropped out of college in Germany to join his family in Italy. Despite initial setbacks, Einstein published several groundbreaking papers in 1905 while working as a patent clerk in Switzerland, including his theory of the photoelectric effect and his special theory of relativity. These papers established him as a leading scientist and would later earn him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Albert Einstein was a problematic student as a child. He was bored in school and often fell asleep in class. His teacher shouted at him, calling him "lazy" and saying he would "never get anywhere in life." Albert's parents moved him to a different school, but he remained unstimulated. He later excelled at advanced mathematics and physics, but dropped out of college in Germany to join his family in Italy. Despite initial setbacks, Einstein published several groundbreaking papers in 1905 while working as a patent clerk in Switzerland, including his theory of the photoelectric effect and his special theory of relativity. These papers established him as a leading scientist and would later earn him the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Albert gave it to them when he arrived home.

It read:

A Problematic Child
It was 1887 at a school in Munich, Gemany. The children were all writing in their notebooks. The teacher raised his hand for silence. One little boy was resting his head on his small wooden desk, almost
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DearMr andMrs Einstein, Albert wascaughtsleeping in cIasstoday- again! This is the third time this week!He is a lazYr child and not interested in hfs lessons. He will notget veyfar in liJewith thisattitude. Unfortunately,hecannot continueat our school.PIease find anotherschool for him. SincereIy, Prederick Weiss, Headmaster

asleep:' The teacher wen't over to him quietly and then shouted in his ear. "ALBERT! You're sleeping again! Get out of my class! You're a lazy,

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good-for-nothing child. ~ou will never get anywhere in life!" Th'e little boy stood up, took his schoolbag and walked sadly out of the classroom. On theiway out of the school, the headmaster gave him a letter addressed to his parents. After reading the note, Albert's father ldt the room in anger. Albert took out his beloved violin and started to play it. He played very well for, an eight year old. His mother put her arm around her son and said, "Albert, what's the matter? Why don't you pay attention in class?" "Because it's so boring," Albert replied. "1 ha te school. I already know all the things they teach uso I prefer to learn something new and interesting like how Father's compass works."
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Albert's parents Il!oved him to a different school, but he was bored and frustrated there, to'o. He was clearly not stupid or lazy - just not stimulated or challenged at school. One day, when Albert was 12, he carne running home full of excitement. "Mother! Mother! They're going to let me leam calculus it's very difficult mathematics and nobody else in my class knows anything about it. But I do oo. and I'm very good at it!" Time passed, and when Albert was 15, his father's busin.ess failed and the family moved to !taly. Albert stayed in Germany to finish school, but was unhappy with this arrangement. One day, he walked out and travelled to Italy to join his surprised family. 'Tm not going back," he said. "Butwhat abOl-!t completing your education?" asked his exasperated father. "You can't succeed in life if you drop out of school." 1(:; l. I~J

"Albert! You will never get anywhere in life!" shouted the teacher.

Determined not to return to Germany, Albert applied to the famous Polytechnic Institute in Zurich but he failed the entrance exam. Fighting his disappointment, he studied at a local school for the rest of the year and took the entrance exams again the following year. This time he passed and was admitted to the Polytechnic to study Physics. But once again, he was frustrated and bored. He often skippe~ his classes, preferring to stay home and read scientific jqurnals. Only one thing interested him there - a beautiful female ~;studentcalled Mileva Maric. She was much more interesting than his boring studies, and very soon they were in love.
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Despite his poor attendance at college, Einstein passed all his exams and graduated with a degree in Physics in 1900. His teachers refused to give him a letter of recornmendation, so for two years he worked at insignificant jobs. Then, in 1902, Albert started to work at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. People carne to his office to register their inventions and designs, so nobody could copy them. Now, earning a better monthly salary, he and Mileva decided to get married, even though his parents did not approve. Their first son, Hans Albert, was Dorn in 1904. To pass the time and to exercise his mind while working at the patent office, the young Einstein wrote a number of scientific papers. In one paper, he suggested a revolutionary theory about how light
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student coJ/ed MiJeva Maric.

travels.It was calledthe Lawof the PhotoelectricEffect- a theory so extraordinarythat he was later awarded the NobelPrizein Physics
for it. Einstein' smost famous equation, E=mc2 (E = energy, m = mass and c = the speed of light), important in the later development of nuclear power, was in a second paper. In another paper, Einstein described his 'Special Theory of Relativity'. It stated that the speed of light never changes - it is always 300,000 kilometres a second or 1,080 million kilometres an hotir. He tried to explain'his theory like this:
"Everything depends on the position of the person viewing it. 1f a child rolls a hall across the floor of a moving train, how fast is the hall moving? To the child, it looks like the hall is moving at one km per hour. But to someone watching the train go by, the balllooks like it is moving at one km per hour,
plus the speed of the train

say 60 kms per hour. To someone watching this

from outer space, the hall is moving at one km per hour, plus the 60 kms an hour speed of the train, plus the speed of the Earth travelling through space! It's all relative."

Albert Einstein submitted these important papers to the University of Zurich and they were published in 1905. He was only 26 years old and still unaware of the significance they were going to have on world science.

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