Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Albert Einstein wasn’t just the scientific whiz behind a famous mathematical equation. He also loved music and fought for civil ...

The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest ...

Origins of genius. Victorian childhood ; Coming of age ; Annus mirabilis ; Only the beginning -- "The happiest thought of my life." Interlude one. The romance of many dimensions ; Glimpsing a solution ...

On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Germany. Early in his life, he demonstrated passion for music and science; in 1896, he began studying physics and mathematics at the Swiss Federal ...

Einstein enrolled at ETH Zurich in October 1896 at the age of just 17. Even then, he was different from his fellow students. Decades later, he reflected on his university years with remarkable honesty ...