Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1876. Despite early challenges like not speaking until age 12, he taught himself calculus by age 12 and became fascinated with physics. He left school and spent 7 years traveling, working as a comedian and violinist before moving to New York. His accomplishments included developing the theories of special relativity, general relativity, and his famous equation E=mc2. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 and helped urge President Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb. Einstein spent his later life working on physics and died in 1955 at age 76.

1. Albert Einstein By: Soara DeLouvre

2. Childhood Born March 26th, 1876 in Germany

3. Did not speak clearly until he was 12, and his parents thought he was slow and unable to learn

4. Practical joker- tossing a spitball changed his life

5. Childhood After the spitball incident, Albert spent the next 6 years teaching himself Calculus – he was determined to figure out how that spit ball moved through the air.

6. Despite his math genius, he was kicked out of school for bringing a skunk to class.

7. Early Life After leaving school, Albert roamed the country for 7 years

8. He learned to play violin and was given a spot in the London Symphony Orchestra

9. Moved to the New York, and became one of the most successful comics in Vaudeville, and was known as “Fuzz Ball” One of his trademarks was sticking his tongue out to the audience

10. Accomplishments Special Relativity

11. General Relativity

12. Photo-electric effect

13. Brownian motion

14. Bose-Einstein Statistics

15. Notable Honors 1921 : Nobel Prize in Physics

16. 1925 : The Copley Medal for his contributions to quantum theory and for his theory of relativity

17. 1929 : The Max Planck medal for his achievements in Physics

18. Atomic Bomb In 1905, Einstein theorized that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E = MC ²

19. Einsteins greatest role in the invention of the atomic bomb was signing a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt urging that the bomb be built.

20. Later Life At the end of his life Albert Einstein was a lonely man, his wife Elsa died after they had been married 17 years.

21. His health began to fail and he died April 18 th , 1955 at the age of 76. “ Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new ”

22. Content Standards Grade 2

23. History/ Social Science -> Students in grade two explore the lives of actual people who make a difference in their everyday lives and learn the stories of extraordinary people from history whose achievements have touched them, directly or indirectly. 2.5 Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives

24. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein

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