1879 March 14 born in Ulm, Germany, in Bavaria 1880-1894 school in Munich 1881 sister Maja born EINSTEIN S LIFE 1889 begins reading physics, math, and philosophy on his own 1894 joins family in Italy 1895 Swiss technical high school in Aarau 1896 released from German citizenship: stateless 1884 receives compass, fascinating and mysterious 1896-1900 attends Zurich Polytechnic (ETH) 1885 some Jewish religious schooling 1900 Planck originates the concept of the quantum 1871-1919 SECOND REICH IN GERMANY SELECTED WORLD EVENTS 1886 Yeshivat Etz Chaim established, Lower East Side EINSTEIN AND YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
1901 becomes Swiss citizen 1905 Miraculous Year in physics 1902 daughter Lieserl born photoelectric effect reality of atoms 1902-9 Patent Office in Bern Special Relativity 1903 marries Mileva Maric E=mc2 1904 son Hans Albert born 1906 specific heat of solids 1909 Zurich: associate professor 1910 son Eduard born 1911 Prague: full professor first identifies himself as Jewish 1912 Zurich: full professor 1871-1919 SECOND REICH IN GERMANY 1912 Etz Chaim merges in principle with RIETS, Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
1913 Berlin: full professor Bohr advances quantum mechanics EINSTEIN S LIFE 1917 General Relativity foundations of cosmology 1919 divorced from Mileva introduction to Zionism marries cousin Elsa eclipse data confirms theory beginning of world fame 1871-1919 SECOND REICH IN GERMANY 1919-33 WEIMAR REPUBLIC IN GERMANY 1914-18 WORLD WAR I SELECTED WORLD EVENTS 1919 Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations founded 1916 Revel founds high school for students of the Yeshiva 1915 Bernard Revel agrees to lead the merged yeshivot, Etz Chaim and RIETS EINSTEIN AND YESHIVA UNIVERSITY
1920 mother dies anti-relativity, anti-semitic lectures 1921 first visit to US 1922 awarded 1921 Nobel Prize, first publication on unified field theory 1923 visits Palestine, inaugurates Hebrew University 1925 Bose-Einstein condensate, statistics 1927 formulation of quantum mechanics by Heisenberg and Schrödinger 1919-33 WEIMAR REPUBLIC IN GERMANY 1920 Chaim Weizmann elected head of Zionist Organization 1923 Revel begins $5 million drive for Yeshiva College Einstein inaugurates Hebrew University, chairs first meeting of Board of Governors
1928 Helen Dukas begins lifelong role as his secretary 1929 another version of unified field theory 1930 son Eduard develops schizophrenia grandson Bernhard born to Hans Albert and wife 1930-33 annual visits to Cal Tech 1919-33 WEIMAR REPUBLIC IN GERMANY 1929-39 DEPRESSION 1928 Stalin Takes Charge 1930-32 NAZIS GAIN GROUND 1928 Yeshiva College opens Einstein resigns from Hebrew University Board 1932 first graduating class of Yeshiva College
1933 Nazis seize property Einstein again spurns German citizenship, retains Swiss citizenship 1933-55 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton EINSTEIN S LIFE 1935 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, applies for permanent US residency from Bermuda 1936 wife Elsa dies son Hans Albert earns doctorate, ETH, Zurich 1937 Hans Albert moves to America 1933 Hitler as Chancellor; Reichstag burns; bookburnings 1935 German Jews lose citizenship, basic rights 1933-45 THIRD REICH IN GERMANY 1929-39 DEPRESSION 1933 first contact between Gottesman and Einstein Einstein floats idea of a refugee Jewish university SELECTED WORLD EVENTS 1935-40 Einstein writes donors, sends messages to College fundraising events 1934 Einstein receives Yeshiva College honorary degree EINSTEIN AND YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 1937 Einstein writes on behalf of Scripta Mathematica 1936 Einstein writes donors from the movie industry, sends message to College commencement
1939 Einstein-Szilard Letter to Roosevelt about possibility of atom bomb sister Maja moves in with Einsteins 1940 becomes an American citizen, retains Swiss citizenship 1938 German invasion of Austria, Sudetenland; Kristallnacht 1939 invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia, then Poland 1940 deportations of Jews to Poland begin 1933-45 THIRD REICH IN GERMANY 1939-45 WORLD WAR II 1942-45 HOLOCAUST 1941 Pearl Harbor 1942 US begins building atomic bomb 1940 Revel dies, severing YC s main connection to Einstein 1939 Einstein s radio speech on behalf of refugees
1946 chairs Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists 1948 Mileva dies; Albert s aneurism discovered 1945-49 ALLIED OCCUPATION OF GERMANY 1945 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, UN established 1949-90 EAST vs. WEST GERMANY 1948- present INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL 1947 UN partition vote 1949 Communists take over mainland China 1945 Belkin informs Einstein about the expansion of Yeshiva College to become Yeshiva Unversity 1946-7 Einstein resigns from, returns to, then resigns again from advisory committee of Brandeis 1946 Einstein chairs advisory committee of what would become Brandeis University 1949 Plans for YU medical school first announced
1950 wills papers to Hebrew University, violin to grandson Bernhard EINSTEIN S LIFE 1951 Maja dies 1953 defends civil rights, opposes McCarthyism 1955 still working toward a unified field theory, Einstein dies on April 18 SELECTED WORLD EVENTS 1945-90 DIVIDED GERMANY: EAST vs. WEST 1948- present INDEPENDENT STATE OF ISRAEL 1950-54 MCCARTHYISM 1950 Korean War begins 1952 first hydrogen bomb 1953 Stalin Dies 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1953 Medical School named for Einstein, groundbreaking ceremonies for first four buildings 1952 Einstein becomes Honorary Chair of campaign, NSF fellowship winners from YU visit Einstein 1951 Einstein writes Belkin supporting YU medical school, $25 million campaign launched 1950 NY charter amended to include medical school EINSTEIN AND YESHIVA UNIVERSITY 1955 YU s Albert Einstein College of Medicine dedicated 1954 Einstein receives updated architectural model on 75th birthday, YU s Stern College for Women established