Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Wurttembuerg, Germany. He started school in Munich. At age 12 he started studying mathematics, mainly calculus. At age 15 his family moved to Milan but he stayed in Munich. At age 16 he failed a test that would have gotten him a diploma in electrical engineering. At 21 he graduated as a teacher of math and physics from the ETH in Zurich but couldn't find a job. In 1905 he got his doctorate and wrote the thesis "on a new determination of molecular dimensions."…
