10 Facts and Why They are Significant to Our History.
- Einstein was an average student but always exceeded in math. This is important in American History because he was known to be the smartest person out there.
- Einstein helped make the atomic bomb. This was important in American History because this led to the Manhattan Project. Einstein wrote the letter to the government and that was the reason the atomic bomb was made. The bomb was actually invented by team work by many other famous scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and more.
- Besides a genius, Einstein was also a musician. If he didn’t become a genius, he would have become a musician and we wouldn’t have Einstein as a genius. He started learning how to play the violin from age 5.
- In 1952, after Israel's first president died, Einstein was offered to be president but he declined. Albert could have been the second president of Israel but he didn’t want to.
- Einstein had 2 wives. His second wife was his own cousin who he started dating while he was still married to his other wife.
- Einstein won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for Physics.
- Albert’s favorite hobby was to sail while he didn’t know how to swim.
- After Albert Einstein died, his brain was stolen by a pathologist who did his autopsy. He kept it for 40 years and returned it in 1998.
- In 1926, Einstein invented the Einstein refrigerator. It did not require electricity to operate, but a small gas burner.
- Albert Einstein called himself as an agnostic though he believed in Spinoza’s god.