Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Wurttemberg, Germany, on March 14th, 1879. Albert Einstein has lived in the USA, swittzerland, Germany, and Italy. He has attended these institutions:Swiss Patent Office, Universtiy of Zurich, Charles University, Praque, ETH Zurich, Prussian Academy of Sciences, Kaiser Wihelm Institute, Universtiy of Leiden, and the Institute for Advanced Study.At age 17 Albert graduated and renounced his german citizenship to avoid military service. Albert was entirely agianst Nazism so an anti-Einstein organization was formed, and a man who was convicted of composing a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars.Einstein became a US citizen in 1940 and stayed there the rest of his life. Many refugees from europe also living in the US recognized the danger of German Scientist developing an atomic bomb. One of these refugees was Leo Szilard. Leo had already tried to arrouse the atention of the US government but failed.So Leo went to Einstein and asked if he would work on writing a letter to the government;Einstein agreed. The two worked together and wrote a letter to the current president, Franklin Roosevelt, urging the US government to create such a weapon.Roosevelt recieved the letter and authorized secret research into the harnessing of nuclear fission for military purposes. This effort soon became the Manhattan Project. Later on Einstein told The Atlantic Monthly, " I regret writing the letter to Franklin Roosevelt". He regreted writing this because he did not want the US to pursue an atomic monopoly, but instead they should give the United Nations with nuclear weapons for the sole purpose of maintaining detterence. On the 17th of April, 1955, Albert Einstein died of internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm. His brain was preserved in hope that in the future, nueroscience would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent.