Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to pursue a course of study leading to a diploma in electrical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 1879, to Hermann Einstein and his wife Pauline. His father was a featherbed salesman. When he was around 5 years old, his quest to investigate the natural world had started, receiving his first compass. As he failed, he spent a year at the Cantonal Secondary School. Thereafter he joined back the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, where he graduated, in 1900 as a secondary school teacher of mathematics and physics.

After two years he was posted at the Swiss Patent office in Bern. Albert married Mileva in January 1903. At this time his father became ill and died in 1905. On June 30^th 1905, Einstein submitted one of his papers “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” to the University of Zurich, to obtain a Ph.D. degree. In 1908, he sent a second paper to the University of Bern and became a lecturer there. A year after, he became an associate professor of physics at the University of Zurich.

In 1912, he was given a position as professor of theoretical physics at ETH. In quick succession he held professorships at the German University of Prague and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 1914 Einstein became a director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, the most prestigious post that a theoretical physicist could hold in central Europe.

In 1922, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 1921. In 1933, he got a post at the Institute of advance Study.

Finally on 16^th of April 1955, the world witnesses the sad demise of Einstein.