Top 10 interesting facts about Albert Einstein

 

1. Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists of the 20th century, known for his theory of general relativity and his famous equation, E=mc².
2. He was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879 and died in 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
3. Einstein was not a good student in his early years, but he excelled in mathematics and physics.
4. He developed the theory of special relativity in 1905, which revolutionized our understanding of time and space.
5. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his contributions to theoretical physics.
6. He was a pacifist and a civil rights activist and spoke out against the use of atomic weapons.
7. Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 but he declined the offer.
8. He was a vegetarian and had a strong interest in Eastern philosophy and religion.
9. Einstein's brain was preserved for scientific study after his death and it has been found to have some structural differences compared to the average brain.
10. He was offered residency in the United States in 1933, after Hitler came to power and Einstein renounced his German citizenship and became a stateless person, later in 1940 he became a US citizen.