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Adulthood

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." -Albert Einstein

Two years after graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Einstein got a job working for the Swiss patent office based in Bern. While the work required a great deal of his attention, he managed to produce a great many publications on theoretical Physics. Primarily he worked on these in his spare time and without very much other scientific literature or colleagues to discuss with. He gained his Ph.D. Degree in 1905 by submitting one of these papers to the University of Zurich. Then another paper submission in 1908 gained him a position at the University of Bern as a lecturer. A year later he was appointed as associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich.

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." –Albert Einstein

He followed up his position at the University of Zurich with a professorship at the German University of Prague and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 1914 he gained the prestigious position of professor at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellchaft in Berlin.

After marrying Mileva Maric in 1903, the couple proceeds to generate a son, Hans Albert in 1904, and their second son Eduard in 1910.

Einstein and Mileva begin divorce proceedings in 1914, just before World War I begins.

After falling seriously ill and near death in 1917, Einstein marries his cousin Elsa in 1919 just before his General Theory of Relativity is proven true.

In 1933 Albert and Elsa leave Europe for the United States, where they settle in Princeton, New Jersey and he gains a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.

After writing his famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, warning of the possibility of the atomic bomb, Einstein becomes an American citizen in 1940.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." –Albert Einstein