Albert Einstein was born on 14 march 1879 in the German city of Ulm.

 
His playmates used to call him Brother Boring. He loved mechanical toys.His headmaster did not have any expectations from him.

 
He went to high school in Munich.He hated the school's regimentation and often clashed with the teachers.At the age of 15 he left the school for good.

 
He was highly gifted in mathematics and interested in physics.He felt a special interest in a fellow student Mileva Maric.

 
In 1900 he was a university graduate and unemployed.He worked as a teaching assistant and secured a job in 1902 as a technical expert at Bern.

 
He developed his own ideas as a secret.He called his drawer thebureau of theoratical physics.His famous papers of 1905 was the Special Theroy of Relativity.

 
He finally got married to Mileva Maric in January 1903.They divorced in 1919.He then married his cousin Elsa the same year.

 
Einstein recieved the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.When the Nazis came to power in Germany,Einstein emigrated to United states.He was afraid that they could build their own atomic bomb.

 
He wrote a letter tot he American President warning him that the bomb might cause a lot of destruction.The Americans developed an atomic bomb as a secret project and dropped it on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and nagasaki in August 1945.Einstein was deeply shaken by the extent of the destruction.Einstein then got involved in politics and built a campaign for peace and democracy.When Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76, he was celebrated as a visionary and world citizen as much as a scientific genius.