After graduating, Albert became a In 1905, Albert had his ‘Annus Mirabilis’, meaning ‘extraordinary year’!

ordinary year’! He published four scientific papers that

lowly clerk in a Patent Office… turned modern physics on its head. For most people, publishing one mind-blowing theory was enough, but publishing
FOUR of them – well, that meant you were a genius!
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But, what is
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You’d think these theories would instantly get Up against general resentment in the scientific Albert soon tweaked his theory of
Gasp! So Albert a job as a professor as he’d always wanted. community, Albert finally got a professorship – relativity, bending time and space…
ungrateful! But not everyone liked (or understood) his ideas. six whole years after his papers were published!

Regarded as the greatest

mind of the 20th Century,
Albert Einstein changed how
we viewed the universe and
came up with the world’s
most famous formula ,E=mc2!

Come back
Grumpy members
when you start
of the scientific He even reckoned the universe was shaped
Albert’s mum was keen for him to learn the violin. By the time Albert was 10 years old, Albert actually found school to be extremely making sense!
community. like a saddle. Then, seven years later…
Unfortunately, his genius didn’t lie in music… he was reading books on geometry dull and often fell out with the teachers…
and deductive reasoning, and even
investigating calculus. Crikey! You’ll never amount to
Oh, our boy is Humph! anything, Einstein!* …British astronomer, Arthur Eddington, proved This confirmation of his theories made One tragic consequence of E=mc2 was the use of
so clever – he’s Come on, Albert! How space-warping by spotting the bending of light Albert the most famous scientist alive. atomic power as a bomb. Albert was shocked when
Proud sure to go far! We’re going to boring! of nearby stars during an eclipse in Brazil… But he didn’t like the attention at all… told others were working on such a terrible weapon…
mum! throw mud pies
at the girls! Yikes! That’s
This light-bending quite a
is mind-bending! bombshell!

And so will that

violin! Right out OK. Just as soon as I
of the window if finish this chapter on Einstein
really IS He once famously stuck his tongue Albert was extremely upset when he discovered that
he doesn’t quit! ‘Transcendental Unity *His teacher actually said this. Oops! a genius! out to ruin a photo, but this just atomic bombs had been dropped in Japan. He spent
Of Apperception’. made everyone love him even more! the rest of his life campaigning for world peace.

In a bid to escape school, Albert forged a note Even though he hadn’t finished school, Albert A year later, he finishes school and successfully
from his doctor, advising that he should leave… cheekily applied to a Swiss polytechnic, but enrolls into the same Swiss polytechnic. Hurrah!
failed the art portion of the entrance exam. Words and illustrations: Gary Northfield. Comic strip consultant: Alan Cowsill. Albert grew more eccentric with every year, However, he never gave up his theorising. After his death, scientist sneakily pinched
playing his violin (badly), becoming evermore Albert’s last big idea was a law of physics Albert’s brain and kept it in a jar.
Your letter says, ‘Albert RASP! forgetful, even insisting his cat was depressed! that brought everything together…
is poorly and should
be let out of school.’ That should Ooh! I’ve
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you to be a They hope one day to see if his brain was any
smarty pants! Unfortunately, Albert died different than normal and maybe even clone him.
Get well soon, It was here that Albert met his first wife Yeah – and before he could finish it.
that violin But there’ll only ever be one Albert Einstein!
young man! and began formulating his early theories…
ain’t helping!

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