Fun Facts About Albert Einstein: Discover Interesting Facts Not Many People Know About

Interesting and Fun Facts About Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein’s popular phrase “The important thing is to not stop questioning” reflected his never-ending questioning attitude and curiosity. This attitude earned him a Nobel Prize. Here are some more amazing facts about Albert Einstein:

• Albert Einstein showed speech impairments till the age of nine. Young Einstein seldom spoke and always muttered silently, framing sentences in his mind until he finally spoke them loud after getting them right. He always had problems with spelling. The headmaster of the school suggested that Einstein should attend a trade school. His teachers also declared him as borderline retarded!

• After graduating from college, Einstein failed to find a job related to his field, physics. He became a technical assistant in a Swiss patent office. However, he never stopped his research on theoretical physics and continued to work on it in his spare time.

• Albert Einstein was never awarded a Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. Even today it is still in use - read about how GPS systems use the theory of relativity for accuracy.

• Einstein applied for an early entrance examination into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in 1895. He was just seventeen at that time. He failed in all other subjects except the math and science sections of the entrance exams. He had to retake the exam and was finally admitted to Polytechnic School.

• The Einstein-Szilard letter, signed by Albert Einstein, (written Leo Szilard) was sent to United States President, Franklin D. Roosevelt on August 2. 1939. The letter warned Roosevelt of a possible Nazi Germany research on nuclear fission to create atomic bombs. This letter was seen as the main reason for the Manhattan Project, a nuclear weapons project which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

• Albert Einstein’s brain has always been a subject of conjectures and research. His brain was removed by the pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey while performing Einstein's autopsy. When scientists conducted a study on his brain structure, they found that the inferior parietal lobe of his brain was 15 percent wider than the parietal lobe of an average human being. This region is specifically associated with mathematical thought, imagery of movement and visuospatial recognition.

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