The World as I See It
Nonfiction Work
By: Albert Einstein
Date: 1933
Source: Einstein, Albert. The World as I See It. Alan Harris, trans. New York: Covici-Friede, 1934, xv–xvi, 278–284. Originally published as Mein Weltbild. Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1933.
About the Author: Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Ulm, Germany. Although interested in mathematics, Einstein did not do well in Germany's rigid school system. His family moved to Berne, Switzerland, where he found employment as an assistant patents clerk. It was during his spare time at this job that he jotted down the ideas that would become the basis for his revolutionary theories, most notably his general and special theories of relativity. In 1921, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. In 1933, the Nazi persecutions of Jewish scientists caused Einstein to flee to the...
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