| 1879 |
born March 14 in Germany |
| 1894 |
family moved to Milan, but he remained in Munich |
| 1895 |
failed examination that would have let him study as an
electrical engineer in Zurich |
| 1896 |
renounced German citizenship |
| 1899 |
applied for Swiss citizenship |
| 1901 |
Swiss citizenship granted and received
temporary job as a
teacher of Mathematics at a Technical High School |
| 1902 |
appointed technical expert third class in patent office
until 1909 |
| 1905 |
earned doctorate from University of Zurich and wrote first
three papers (1: described electromagnetic radiation of light, 2: proposed
special theory of relativity, 3: statistical mechanics) |
| 1906 |
promoted to technical expert second class |
| 1908 |
lecturer at University of Bern until 1909 |
| 1909 |
became professor of physics at the University of Zurich |
| 1911 |
appointed a full professor at the Karl-Ferdinand University
in Prague and made first preliminary predictions that would become
Einstein's theory |
| 1912 |
began
work on general theory of relativity and moved from Prague to Zurich to
become |
| 1955 |
died April 18 in New Jersey |
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