His father Hermann was merchant in the featherbed industry. It however failed and the family moved to Munich. There he founded a company that made electrical equipment with his Albert’s uncle Jakob. His mother Pauline was a talented musician that gave him his love of music. The love of music would stay with him throughout his entire life. He played the piano and violin at age 5. By age 13 he thought he had mastered the violin. The violin would help him with stress …show more content…
This was also the same time he was working on his theory of relativity. He successfully figured that out and called it “the culmination of his life’s research” (Biography). It was also proved with the solar eclipse of 1919. Einstein was in the peak of his success and traveling around the time of the rise of Hitler. As he would have been targeted and killed he left and went to America. In 1939 Einstein and Leo Szilard (another physicist) wrote to Franklin Roosevelt. They wrote giving warning of the fear that atomic weapons. Obviously that turned the heads of the US government leading to the Manhattan Project. Later, he became a citizen of the United States because it really appealed to him. He loved the culture and the country. After this he was offered presidency of Israel, but he declined the offer. Einstein at the point in time would speak on social and political issues. While working on theory he suffered an abdominal attack, which causes internal bleeding. He was taken to the hospital where he wished to not have an operation. He stated, "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly” (Biography). That led him to die April 18, 1955 at the age of 76. Thomas Stoltz Harvey removed his brain without permission to study it. Einstein was also cremated and his ashes were spread on an unknown location that he