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His Passion Wasn't Just Relative Keep Learning: Einstein's devotion to knowledge helped solve scientific puzzles.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: KEN HOOVER
Albert Einstein had a passion from boyhood to unravel the way the universe worked.
And thinking hard was hard work. For weeks, he pondered new concepts. Walking home one night in 1905 from work at the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, where he started his career as a clerk, he told a colleague he'd run up against a mental block.
"I've decided to give it up, the whole theory," he said as he struggled to bring together his theory of relativity.
The moment of relaxation may have been just what his mind needed. That evening, the missing pieces fell into place.
Transferring the theory from his mind to 30 pages of mathematical equations in logical progression took five more weeks of brain-sapping work. Einstein (1879-1955) was so exhausted at the end, he stayed in bed for two weeks. His wife, Mileva, checked the manuscript carefully and then sent it off to a scientific journal.
"Annus Mirabilis," the miracle year, is how Einstein biographers remember 1905. He published five papers outlining quantum theory, the theory of Brownian movement and the theory of relativity.
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