Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Here are some interesting facts about Albert Einstein many don’t know about.
Renouncing his Citizenship in Germany
Albert Einstein renounced his German Citizenship at the young age of 16 and not during World War II as many believe.
From an early age, Albert Einstein never liked the idea of nationalism of any kind and considered it a sham and believed he is a “citizen of the world.” Albert Einstein was only 16 when he renounced his German citizenship and was legitimately state-less until he became a Swiss citizen in the year 1901.
Married the Only Female Student in His Physics Class.
The personal life of Einstein was never a focal point and very few knew that he married his only female physics student.
Albert Einstein married the only female student in his physics class. MilevaMarić was the name of the only female student in Einstein’s section at Zürich Polytechnic. She was very much interested in math and science and was an ambitious physicist in her own right, but she gave up her ambitions after getting married to Einstein and became the mother of his children and a housewife.
Einstein did not pass his college entrance exam.
It’s hard to believe that Einstein, one of the greatest scientists ever actually failed his college entrance exam.
Albert Einstein passed the science and mathematics tests in the college entrance exam, but could not clear other subjects like history, languages, and geography. He later took extra classes and private tuition and only then he was able to get admission into college.
He urged the USA to make an atomic bomb.
He was one of the earliest that urged the USA to make an atom bomb before the Nazis get success at it.
Regardless of being a pacifist, Albert Einstein, was aware of the dangers of Nazi power, and he alerted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a letter to the intentions of the Germans to create an atomic bomb and offered to collaborate to make it. According to him if Germany was able to make the Atom Bomb, it will be disastrous for world peace. Roosevelt didn’t accept Einstein’s offer to help as he saw it as a risk to the security of the project and didn’t collaborate with him.
