10 things you probably didn’t know about Einstein
Posted by staff / April 26, 2017
Crazy hair and even crazier smarts are two things everyone knows about the amazing Albert Einstein, yet man does not live by brains alone.
Einstein had a few skeletons in his closet, much like the rest of us. National Geographic presents this throwback celebrity expose in honor of its new TV series, “Genius.”
1. He renounced his German citizenship when he was 16.
From an early age, Albert Einstein loathed nationalism of any kind and considered it preferable to be a “citizen of the world.” When he was 16, he renounced his German citizenship and was officially state-less until he became a Swiss citizen in 1901.
2. He married the only female student in his physics class.
Mileva Marić was the only female student in Einstein’s section at Zürich Polytechnic. She was passionate about math and science, and was an aspiring physicist in her own right, but she gave up those ambitions when she married Einstein and became the mother of his children. (Watch: “When Albert Met Mileva”)
Full story at National Geographic.
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