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visionary: a person who can think about the future in an original and
intelligent way

Einstein could foresee the future. When he died in 1955 at the age of 76,
the world celebrated him as a visionary. He was a world citizen and a
scientific genius too.

Summary

Albert Einstein was born on 14th March in 1879, in the German city of
Ulm. Till the age of two and half years, he could not speak and when he
started speaking, he spoke every word twice. His playmates considered
him to be boring and his mother thought that he was crazy because of
the abnormally large size of his head. At school, his head master
regarded him as stupid and good for nothing. But he proved them all
wrong. At the age of 6, at the insistence of his mother, he learned to play
the violin. He became a gifted violinist. At the age of 15, his family
shifted to Munich. He did not feel comfortable with the strict discipline at
the school and left it. On completing his schooling, he joined the
University at Zurich because the atmosphere there was more liberal and
accepted new ideas and concepts. He showed more interest in Physics
and Mathematics. He met a fellow student, Mileva Maric at the
University. She was equally intelligent and clever. Later on, they married
and had 2 sons but unfortunately their marriage did not survive and were
divorced in 1919.

After completing his education, Albert worked as a technical expert in
the patent office at Bern. Here, he worked secretly on his idea on
relativity. In 1915, he published his paper on special theory of relativity,
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followed by the world-famous equation E = mc .In 1915, he published
his paper on General Theory of Relativity, which gave an absolutely new