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| Albert Einstein | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 | |
| was only his years in Aarau and Berne employee of the Federal Patent Office | |
| that he looked back on fondly. “Einstein in Berne. His annus mirabilis fell in the | |
| liked to think back to his time in Berne, middle of this period: in 1905 he pub | |
| which he spoke of more often and more lished no less than five revolutionary | |
| positively than of Zurich,” Wolfgang papers. These included the Theory of | |
| Pauli wrote in an obituary in the Neue Special Relativity and the Light Quanta | |
| Zürcher Zeitung. Hypothesis, for which, among other | |
| Nonetheless, it appears he actually achievements, he was later awarded | |
| had a good time there. From 1896 to the Nobel Prize. | |
| 1900, Einstein studied physics at ETH, Einstein then moved back to Zurich | |
| then known as the Federal Polytech a second time, when the University | |
| nical School. He appreciated the in created an associate professorship in | |
| stitution’s liberal spirit: as a student theoretical physics especially for him. | |
| there, you could “more or less do as Professor Einstein was usually ill-pre | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 “for his services | |
| you liked.” So he put together a study pared: his lecture notes often consisted | |
| to theoretical physics, and especially | |
| plan entirely to his own taste: “Some of a scrap of paper the size of a visiting | |
| for his discovery of the laws of the photo | |
| lectures I followed with great interest. | |
| electric effect” | |
| Otherwise, I skipped class often and | |
| * 14 March 1879 in Ulm | |
| stayed at home to study the masters 1905 was Einstein’s annus | |
| of theoretical physics with holy fer | |
| † 18 April 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey mirabilis: the physicist | |
| published no less than five | |
| vor.” This self-study took place mainly | |
| In 1905 Albert Einstein submitted his revolu | |
| in Hottingen, where Einstein rented | |
| tionary paper “Eine neue Bestimmung der groundbreaking papers. | |
| lodgings from various landladies. He | |
| Moleküldimensionen” (A New Determination | |
| also spent much time in the Pension card. But he was so selflessly devoted | |
| of Molecular Dimensions) as a dissertation at | |
| Engelbrecht at Plattenstrasse 50, where to his students that they wrote a letter | |
| the University of Zurich. | |
| his friend, colleague, and later wife, of protest to the education department | |
| From 1909 to 1911 he was Professor for | |
| Mileva Marić, had lodgings. when he moved to Prague after only | |
| Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich. | |
| Einstein’s favorite leisure activity three semesters. | |
| was playing the violin. He was regu Einstein returned to Zurich again | |
| larly invited by Alfred Stern, a histo in 1912, this time as Professor for The | |
| rian at the ETH, and his family, to enjoy oretical Physics at ETH. He was now | |
| Zurich and the | |
| a meal and make music with them. well established: he had few teaching | |
| Annus Mirabilis | |
| In summer, he enjoyed sailing on the responsibilities and a good salary, so | |
| Lake of Zurich, in winter he loved hair that he could permit himself an impos | |
| Albert Einstein and Zurich – it could | |
| raising sledge rides on the Zürichberg. ing apartment on the Zürichberg. Otto | |
| have been a real love story. Einstein, | |
| And he could often be found happily Stern had followed him from Prague to | |
| born in Ulm in 1879, was a resident of | |
| sitting in the Café Metropol on the Zurich, as his assistant, and served as | |
| Zurich, obtaining citizenship in 1901, | |
| Stadthausquai. sparring partner and “calculating ma | |
| and lived there for almost eight years | |
| After graduating from ETH, Ein chine.” But again, Einstein only man | |
| altogether, longer than in any other | |
| stein worked from 1902 to 1909 as an aged to stay in Zurich for a year and a | |
| Swiss town. In retrospect, however, it | |
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