Albert Einstein Born: March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany Died: April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA In 1886 Albert Einstein began his school career in Munich, Germany. He studied mathematics, in particular calculus. In 1895 Einstein failed an exam, which would have allowed him to become an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschole in Zurich. Upon the failing of the entrance exam to the ETH, Einstein attended a secondary school at Aarau planning to use …showed first 75 words of 630 total…

…showed last 75 words of 630 total…Royal Society in 1925; Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926, AMS Gibbs Lecturer in 1934 and a crater was named after him. While at Princeton he worked to unify the laws of physics. But the problems were too great for his ageing mind. Einstein promoted Zionism, pacifism and, in a secret 1939 letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the construction of a uranium bomb. Einstein was cremated at Trenton, New Jersey April 18, 1955 the same day he died.