Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany, the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann and Pauline Einstein. Later they migrated to the United States. Albert never went back to Germany after moving to the USA. He didn’t feel safe in Germany because of the events that led to World War 2 and instead settled down to life in the American town of Princeton, New Jersey.
Albert Einstein as an Inventor:
Einstein worked at the Swiss Patent Office for seven years. His curiosity dragged him to invent little inventions. During the job, he invented many inventions that he got patent. Some of his patents were a self-adjusting camera, a refrigerator and, a blouse design. This blouse design mention in Ripley‘s Believe It Or Not.
He was spied by the FBI:
After the third trip to America in 1933 FBI spied on him. His third trip was started just before Hitler rose to power. Though he supposed to be a pacifist at that critical stage of World War II, drove J. Edgar Hoover, highest ranked in FBI, to spy on him. His file in the FBI become a dossier of 1,427 pages, the official said. This spying then becomes a 22-year surveillance campaign.
I remember some funny points about Albert Einstein. I read it when I was a child. I read a book-themed on Albert Einstein. There were very funny and amazing facts about Albert Einstein. Some of them I still remember.
ALBERT EINSTEIN HAD A TERRIBLE MEMORY:
One day a man called the public relations center and asked the address of Albert Einstein. The caller who received the call replied loudly that he/she could not give the house number of Albert Einstein. The man whispered that He was Albert Einstein and he forgot his street number.
One day when He and his assistance was busy on something a salesperson came to them and requested them to had a lift. Albert Einstein argued with that person and asked him to do that. Listening to this His assistance told Him that his home was on just one floor.
Albert Einstein was a slow learner. He could not speak well as a normal child of his age can speak. He learned to speak at a late age.
Einstein’s memory was notoriously poor. He was unable to remember dates and could not remember his own phone number. As a student, one of his teachers claimed that he had a memory like a sieve. Once when he was traveling on a train, the conductor approached to collect his ticket. Einstein began searching his pockets, but the conductor recognized him and said he could ride for free. Einstein responded, “Thank you, but if I don’t find my ticket I won’t know where to get off the train.”
BUT HAS A SHARP MIND:
Albert Einstein had a sharp memory. One day a person told him his phone number but Sir Einstein did note it. that person asked him to note it on a paper but Einstein replied that He need not note it He said to him that the number (62517576; not the exact number) was square of 25 and cube of 26. He remembered the number in the form of a square or cube or vice versa.
HE FAILED IN MATHEMATICS:
One widely held belief about Einstein is that he failed math as a student, an assertion that is made, often accompanied by the phrase “as everyone knows,” by scores of books and thousands of websites designed to reassure underachieving students. A Google search of Einstein's failed math turns up more than 500,000 references. The allegation even made it into the famous “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!” newspaper column.
RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT:
The “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” made many columns on Albert Einstein. The one was published as “In 1952 Albert Einstein was offered a Presidential seat in Israel but he refused to get it”.
“In 1936 Albert Einstein patented a design for a blouse with adjustable buttons.”
EINSTEIN THOUGHT IN PICTURES RATHER THAN WORDS:
Einstein learned things in the form of pictures, not in the form of words. He seemed it easy to learn things in pictures.
On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of a Triple-A, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen in 1948. He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel’s seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live to complete it.
Einstein refused surgery, saying, “I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.” He died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76, having continued to work until near the end.
Sources: Wikipedia, Google, and History.
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