Albert Einstein, was a German-born American physicist and Nobel prize winner,
best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity. He is perhaps the
most well-known scientist of the 20th century. Einstein was born in Ulm on March 14,
1879, and spent his youth in Munich, where his family owned a small shop that
manufactured electric machinery. He did not talk until the age of three, but even as a youth
he showed about nature and an ability to understand difficult mathematical concepts.
Einstein hated the dull and unimaginative spirit of school in Munich. When repe…
