Albert Einstein

Pretty Good Essay Very Good!!!! ALBERT EINSTEIN Albert Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879.As a kid he had trouble learning to speak. His parents thought that he might be mentally retarded. He was not smart in school. He suffered under the learning methods that they used in the schools of Germany at that time so he was never able to finish his studies. In 1894 his father's business had failed and the family moved …

…in a nuclear reaction known as FISSION, which is the splitting of atomic nuclei. Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pointing out that atomic bombs are possible and that enemy nations must be allowed to make them first.         Roosevelt agreed with Einstein and funded the Manhattan Project.         On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein died. To his dying day, he urged the world to come to some agreement that would make nuclear wars forever impossible.