Albert Einstein is considered as one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. Even as a small boy Einstein was thoughtful. It was said that he was a slow talker and he did not start talking until he was three years old. The boy was encouraged by his uncle, an engineer, and by a medical student who ate dinner once a week at the Einstein's home.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Germany. Though he attended school as a young boy, his real studies were done at home with books on maths, physics and philosophy. By the age of 12 he had taught himself geometry (几何学).A teacher advised Einstein to leave school, since he destroyed the other students* respect for the teacher. When he was 15, he had to leave school in mid-term to join his parents, who had moved to Italy.
At the age of 16 he failed the exam to enter a school, where he would have been trained as an electrical engineer. At that time, Einstein developed a plan. He decided to enter a school to study maths and physics so that he could become a teacher. In 1900 he graduated as a teacher of maths and physics. His teachers did not think very highly of him, so he had difficulty in finding a job in a university. In 1901 he took a job as a high school teacher and married Mileva Martisch. One year later, Einstein became a teacher at the University of Bern. In 1905 Ein-stein wrote a paper on what is now known as the Special Theory of Relativity (《狭义相对论》).He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect (光电反应).
Did you know that there is even a crater (陨石坑)on the moon named after Einstein?