Early Life Einstein was Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Württemberg Germany. Albert Einstein grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. His father Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who with his brother founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie. A company that manufactured electrical equipment in Munich, Germany. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein had one sister Maja, who was born two years after him. Einstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. He loved classical music and played the violin. He experienced a speech difficulty where he’d pause to consider what to say next. Years later Einstein would write about two events that had a marked effect on his childhood. One was an encounter with a compass at age five, where he was amazed at the invisible forces that turned the needle. The other was at age 12, when he discovered a book of geometry, he read the book over and over. In 1889, the Einstein family invited a poor Polish medical student, Max Talmud to come to their house for Thursday evening meals. Talmud became a tutor to young Albert, introducing him to higher mathematics and philosophy. One of the books Talmud showed Albert was a children’s science book. The author imagined riding alongside electricity that was traveling inside a telegraph wire. Einstein started to question what a light beam would look like if you could run alongside it at the same speed. Einstein was able to apply directly to the Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (Swiss Federal Polytechnic School) in Zürich, Switzerland. Lacking a high school diploma, he failed the entrance exam but got exceptional marks in mathematics and physics. Because of this, he was admitted to the school provided he complete his formal schooling first. He went to a special high
Early Life Einstein was Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Württemberg Germany. Albert Einstein grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. His father Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer who with his brother founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie. A company that manufactured electrical equipment in Munich, Germany. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. Einstein had one sister Maja, who was born two years after him. Einstein attended elementary school at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. He loved classical music and played the violin. He experienced a speech difficulty where he’d pause to consider what to say next. Years later Einstein would write about two events that had a marked effect on his childhood. One was an encounter with a compass at age five, where he was amazed at the invisible forces that turned the needle. The other was at age 12, when he discovered a book of geometry, he read the book over and over. In 1889, the Einstein family invited a poor Polish medical student, Max Talmud to come to their house for Thursday evening meals. Talmud became a tutor to young Albert, introducing him to higher mathematics and philosophy. One of the books Talmud showed Albert was a children’s science book. The author imagined riding alongside electricity that was traveling inside a telegraph wire. Einstein started to question what a light beam would look like if you could run alongside it at the same speed. Einstein was able to apply directly to the Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (Swiss Federal Polytechnic School) in Zürich, Switzerland. Lacking a high school diploma, he failed the entrance exam but got exceptional marks in mathematics and physics. Because of this, he was admitted to the school provided he complete his formal schooling first. He went to a special high