Albert Einstein

What is a Hero? Is it someone who made the world a better place through peace and environmental activism or someone who helped the world through science and helped man put one more step into the future? I believe that, without Albert Einstein, I would never know that you can't go faster than the speed of light. Einstein is not the only hero in the world, there are many others who helped the world and will be remembered always.

My hero is Albert Einstein. He was born in Wuttemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879. His family moved to Munich 6 weeks later. His parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein and were nonreligious Jews. His mother was a musician and taught him to play the violin. Albert's first word was when he was 2 and in his early childhood had troubles with speaking and spoke slowly when answering anything at school. All his teachers thought he wouldn't achieve at anything. When he was 6 his father gave him a compass and he was compelled by the way the little pointer always pointed to the north. This gave him a great curiosity about the world and the science it has to give. Another thing that changed him was the math books that his uncle gave him. His Uncle Jakob called algebra "a merry science" and encouraged Albert to learn.

Albert went to the Luitpold Gymnasium for high school while his family moved to Italy. Bored at school and missing his family he forged a note from his doctor saying he had a lung condition and needed to move to Italy because of its dry climate. They agreed to let him leave because he was quite the trouble maker. After spending a year in Italy he went to Zurich, Switzerland to apply for the Polytechnic Institute but failed the entrance exam and had to spend a year at a different college outside of Zurich. After college he got a job at the Swiss Patent Office. With his free time he researched light and time and, in 1905, patented some of the most amazing papers of the time such as his photoelectric law which led to the invention of the T.V. and movies with sound. With this he won a Nobel Prize in 1921.

His second paper, and arguably the most famous, explains the relation of mass to energy and also explained atomic energy which lead to nuclear fission and the atomic bomb. Albert Einstein never stopped experimenting and with the help of electromagnets, concluded that light always goes 186,000 miles a second. While visiting America in 1933, Germany took his property and stripped him of his German Citizenship. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, offered him to be their director and he spent the rest of his life in America. On April 18, 1955 Albert Einstein died peacefully in his sleep and, according to his will, he had no funeral, no grave. He had his brain donated to science and was cremated and had his ashes spread over a near-by river.

Is there a hero in all of us? Are we all like Albert Einstein but haven't realized yet? i think that there is a hero in all of us but some like to show it more than others. But if we all show the hero in us the world would be a better place. To honor my hero, Albert Einstein, I think that instead of fighting we should all just make peace with each other because Albert was a strong pacifist and did not believe in fighting blindly.