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Who are Einstein's parents?
Albert Einstein's parents: Herman Einstein

Herman Einstein is the father of the famous physicist Albert Einstein. Herman Einstein also had a daughter named Maya. After Herman Einstein graduated from middle school, several rich relatives funded him to open a small factory in Ulm to manufacture and sell down mattresses, but Herman Einstein was not good at business and the factory was not profitable.

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Einstein was born in a Jewish family in Ulm, Germany on 1879. 1900 graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and became a Swiss citizen. 1905, Einstein received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Zurich, put forward the photon hypothesis and successfully explained the photoelectric effect, so he won the 192 1 Nobel Prize in physics.

1905, he founded the special theory of relativity; 19 15, he founded the general theory of relativity; 1933, he moved to the United States and worked in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton; 1940, he became an American citizen while retaining Swiss nationality. 1955 On April 8, Einstein died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, at the age of 76.

Einstein's theory laid a theoretical foundation for the development of nuclear energy. In order to help fight against the Nazis, 1939, with the help of Leo Szilard and others, he wrote a letter to US President franklin roosevelt, which directly contributed to the start of the Manhattan Project. After World War II, he actively advocated peace and opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and signed the Russell-Einstein Declaration. ?

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