Albert+Einstein

by Emmett, Grade 4



Albert Einstein was a great scientist. He found answers to science problems that nobody else could answer. He didn’t believe in war, but he invented the Atom Bomb. He was the smartest person in his time.

When Albert was a young boy, he went to a school called Luitpold Gymnasium. He worked very hard there but he was treated like a soldier. Teachers expected kids to write down every word they said and always have the right answers. Wrong answers meant that the teachers would make fun of you and the kids would laugh at you. Albert hated this school and did not do very well there. He was a loner. After this he went to a Catholic elementary school where he had a brilliant record and great grades in math. But, he was still a loner. Finally, he went to the California Institute of Technology. He started studying his life’s work at the California Institute.

In a way Albert was like Christopher Columbus. He wanted to explore the laws of nature. Albert knew there was more to learn about space and time. He wanted to find answers to questions that had puzzled scientists and philosophers for centuries. He wanted to know how the universe operated. At night when he would walk, Albert would look at the stars and wonder how long it took light to go through space to get to his eyes. When Albert was twenty-six, he had a PhD.

Albert said that “gravity is really curved space.” Albert put a bowling ball on a trampoline to explain what he meant. The ball made a dent. The trampoline represented space and the ball was the sun. If you put a marble and it is spinning fast enough it will not fall against the ball. The marble stands for the earth.

As Albert got older he spent happy hours in a bright room in his house. When he was 73 he began to have poor health. Albert was offered the presidency of Israel but he knew he couldn’t run a country because of his health and age. Albert’s blood vessels began to leak and he died. On his bed beside him was a sheet of math problems that he never finished. Albert had kept working until the day he died.

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