READING Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was one of the most famous scientists of all time. He developed the special and general theories of relativity and made many other important discoveries. Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm. Germany. He grew up in a secular Jewish family. His father was a salesman and engineer and his mother was a housewife. Einstein had one sister. Maja, who was born two years after him. He studied at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich. He didn't like studying there. One teacher even told him that he would never get anywhere. At this time, Einstein became interested in classical music and he leamed to play the violin. He was also interested in science. In the 1890s, Einstein's family moved to Milan, Italy. Einstein started studying at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zürich. His years in Zürich were some of the happiest years of his life. He became friends with many other students and met his future wife, Mileva Maric, a physics student from Serbia Einstein finished his university studies and found work in a Swiss patent office. In his free time. Einstein continued studying physics. He married Mileva Maric in 1903. but the marriage was not a happy one. They divorced in 1919 and Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal. In 1905. Einstein published four important papers about physics. The fourth paper included the famous E=mc In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics From 1913 to 1933, Albert Einstein was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin. He often travelled around the world and gave talks about physics. While Einstein was travelling and speaking internationally, the Nazis were becoming more and more powerful. Einstein's life was in danger. In 1932. he decided to leave Germany forever. He moved to the United States and took on a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein became an American citizen in 1935. In 1939, he and his friend Leo Szilard wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. They warned him that the Nazis might be trying to create an atomic bomb. The United States started a programme to create its own nuclear weapons. After learning of the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Einstein became active in trying to stop future use of nuclear weapons. He also supported the civil rights of African Americans. In 1952, he was offered to become the president of Israel, but he respectfully declined. Albert Einstein died on April 18. 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.

1 Read the text and answer the following questions.

1 What was Albert Einstein's father's job?
2 What did Albert Einstein do after he finished his university studies?
3 When did Albert Einstein get the Nobel Prize for Physics?
4 Why did Einstein decide to leave Germany?
5 When did Einstein become an American citizen?
6 Why did Einstein write a letter to F. D. Roosevelt?
7 What did Einstein do after he learned about the bombing of Hiroshima?
2 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

1 Albert Einstein was older than his sister.
2 Albert Einstein didn't enjoy studying at the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich.
3 Albert Einstein could play the violin.
4 Albert Einstein's first wife was from Serbia. 5 Albert Einstein published his most famous equation in 1905.
6 Albert Einstein supported the civil rights of black people.
7 In 1952, Albert Einstein became the president of Israel.
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