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GENIUS
PHYSICIST
ALBERT EINSTEIN
KATIE MARSICO
Lerner Publications Minneapolis
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To my friends in PAGE, wholike Einsteinare all talented, intelligent, and unafraid to
ask questions
Content consultant: Liliya L. R. Williams, professor at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics
Copyright 2018 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.
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For reading levels and more information, look up this title at www.lernerbooks.com.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Marsico, Katie, 1980
Title: Genius physicist Albert Einstein / Katie Marsico.
Description: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications, 2018. | Series: STEM trailblazer bios | Audience:
Age 711. | Audience: Grade 4 to 6. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identi f iers: LCCN 2016056356 (print) | LCCN 2017006205 (ebook) | ISBN 9781512434514 (lb : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781512456295 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512451030 (eb pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Einstein, Albert, 18791955Juvenile literature. | PhysicistsBiographyJuvenile
literature.
Classi f ication: LCC QC16.E5 M3295 2018 (print) | LCC QC16.E5 (ebook) | DDC 530.092 [B]
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CONTENTS
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Chapter 1
THE BOY FEW PEOPLE
BELIEVED IN
Albert Einstein
was fourteen years
old when he posed
for this photo in
Munich, Germany.
A lbert Einstein was a famous mathematician and physicist .
He used his imagination to form incredible ideas about time,
space, and matter . But most of the people he knew werent
impressed by young Albert. A teacher even told him that he
would never amount to much.
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Albert proved everyone wrong. His ideas made him
famousideas that forever changed the way people viewed
the universe around them.
FROM CLASSROOM TO CLERKS OFFICE
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany.
Soon the Einsteins moved to Munich, Germany, to set up the
family business. Alberts father was an engineer and salesman
of equipment used to produce electricity.
Alberts father,
Hermann, and
mother, Pauline,
knew their son was
different from
other children.
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