Person of the Century

Albert Einstein

1879 : Born, March 14,
1896 : He joined Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zurich as a teacher trainee in Physics and Maths.
1901 : Got his diploma, acquired Swiss Citizenship, was unable to get a teaching position, joined as a technical assistant in a patent office.
1909 : Became Professor extra-ordinary in Zurich.
1911 : Professor of theoretical Physics at Prague.
1914 : Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and Professor of the University of Berlin. Became a German Citizen.
1921 : Nobel Prize - Physics - "Photoelectric Effect"
1933 : Renounced German Citizenship( reported to have felt Germany was too chauvinistic )and emigrated to United States and was the Professor of theoretical Physics at Princeton.
1940 : Acquired US Citizenship.
1955 : April 18 died- Princeton New Jersey.

Is considered by many as the "Person of the Century" followed by M. K. Gandhi (soldier of peace), and then by Franklin Roosevelt (Statesman).
He was offered the Presidency of the State of Israel which he declined.
"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes. When you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours - that's relativity." Albert Einstein.
When he joined Princeton University in USA, he was asked what his requirements would be in his new position, for which he replied: "A desk, some pads and a pencil, and a large wastebasket to hold all of my mistakes."
During the 1930s, Einstein is reported to have said, "If my relativity theory is verified, Germany will proclaim me a German and France will call me a citizen of the world. But if my theory is proved false, France will emphasize that I am a German and Germany will say that I am a Jew."
When one of his colleagues asked him for his telephone number, Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. "You don't remember your own number?" the man asked, startled.
"No," Einstein answered. "Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?"