Exercise 4A, page 55.0:00
Albert Einstein was a world famous scientist, philosopher and physicist.0:35
He was born on 14 March 1879 in the city of Ulm, which later became part of Germany.0:40
As a child he grew up in Munich.0:48
He attended Lutpold Grammar School where he was a quiet student interested in science and mathematics.0:51
He also enjoyed playing his violin.0:58
When he was 15, he left school and went with his family to Milan.1:00
His ambition was to become a maths or physics teacher.1:04
He graduated from high school in Switzerland and finished his university studies in Zurich in 1900.1:08
In 1901, Einstein, now in his early 20s, couldn't find a teaching position.1:16
Instead he got a job as a technical assistant in the Swiss patent office.1:22
In his spare time he worked on maths problems and in 1905 he published some of his famous scientific theories.1:27
Included was the well known Special Theory of relativity.1:35
During the 1920s he received many different honors.1:39
He accepted the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921.1:43
Throughout his life he published over 400 scientific works and gave lectures in Europe and America.1:48
Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955.1:55
His name and face are still famous all over the world and many people believe he was the greatest genius of the 20th century and perhaps of all time.2:02
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