He grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. Einstein was the “first child of Pauline and Hermann Einstein” (Kovalchik). When he was born medical professionals believed that he had autism or Asperger syndrome. As Einstein was growing up, he had many problems, for example he had speech difficulties as a child, when he actually learned how to speak at the age of three, and he was not saying small phrases but actually speaking in full length sentences. When he attended elementary school he excelled in his academics, he also enjoyed classical music, and his mother had taught him how to play the violin (Kovalchick). At the age of twelve he was captivated by a geometry book, he would read it over and over. After quitting high school at the age of 15, he moved to Italy, there he attended a congenial Swiss High School. He graduated at the age of 17, and at that time he had also renounced his German citizenship in order to prevent being drafted into the military. The following year he entered the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, here Einstein had claimed to be the happiest years of his life because there he met his future wife, and she was known as Mileva Maric …show more content…
Overall there were four major areas that Einstein contributed to: “light, time, energy, and gravity” (Pakhare). Before coming up with the equation E=mc², scientist believed that energy and mass were two different things, Einstein’s theory was that mass and energy were “different forms of the same thing” (Rosenberg).He had also explained that “energy came in chunks or quanta, now called ‘Photons’” (Kovalchik). In 1921 Einstein had won the Nobel Prize for his services to Theoretical Physics. Theoretical Physics is a certain branch of physics that helps describe certain aspects of nature (Rosenburg). A great example of Theoretical Physics was explaining why the sky was blue; in 1910 he did so by explaining that the molecules of the light in the atmosphere where scattering. During World War II, Einstein was in the United States in order to help build a new weapon of mass destruction to help cease the fighting between the world. When the U.S had amassed the Atomic Bomb and had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it had been said that after he had seen the destruction of the bomb he completely regretted the