A Truly Beautiful Mind Summary

A Truly Beautiful Mind Summary 

Albert Einstein was born on 14th March in 1879, in the German city of Ulm. For about two

and half years he could not speak and when he did learn to speak, he uttered every word

twice. His playmates called him “Brother Boring”, and his mother regarded him a freak

because of the abnormally large size of his head. At school, his headmaster regarded him as

stupid and good for nothing. But he proved them all wrong.

At the age of 6, on behest of his mother, he learned to play the violin. He became a gifted

violinist. At the age of 15, his family shifted to Munich. He did not feel at ease with the strict

regimentation of the school and left it for good. Later on, for higher education, he joined the

University at Zurich because the atmosphere there was more liberal and amenable to new

ideas and concepts. He showed more interest in Physics and Mathematics.

He met a fellow student, Mileva Marie at the University- equally intelligent and clever. Later

on they married and had 2 sons but unfortunately, their marriage did not survive and was

divorced in 1919. After completing his education, Albert worked as a technical expert in the

patent oce at Bern. Here, he worked secretly of his idea on relativity. In 1915, he published

his paper on the special theory of relativity, followed by the world famous equation E = mc2.

In 1915, he published his paper on General Theory of Relativity, which gave an absolutely

new definition to the concept of gravity. This theory made him a famous figure. In 1919,

during the solar eclipse, his theory came out to be accurate and revolutionized physics. In

1933, he immigrated to the USA as Nazis had come to power in Germany. 

He did not want his finding and research to be used for destruction. In 1938, when Germany discovered the principle of Nuclear Fission, he was the first person to write to the American President about the dangers of the atomic bombs. In 1945, when America dropped the Atomic Bombs on

Nagasaki and Hiroshima, he was deeply hurt and wrote to the United Nations for the

formation of a world government to prevent recurrence of such destruction. He spent his

later days in politics advocating world peace and democracy. He died at the age of 76 in

1955.

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