Transcription of 1879—1955
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N a t i o n a l a c a d e m y o f s c i e n c e sAny opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s)and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of l B e r t e i n s t e i n1879 1955A biographical Memoir byJ o h n a r c h iB a l d Wh e e l e r biographical MemoirCopyright 1980national aCademy of sCienCeswashington EINSTEINM arch 14, 1879 April 18, 1955BY JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER*ALBERT EINSTEIN was born in Ulm, Germany on March-**- 14, 1879. After education in Germany, Italy, and Swit-zerland, and professorships in Bern, Zurich, and Prague, hewas appointed Director of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Phy-sics in Berlin in 1914.
102 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS certain extent, accessible to human reason."* In later years, Einstein was asked to do a life on Spinoza. He excused him-self from writing the biography itself on the ground that it required "exceptional purity, imagination and modesty," t but he did write the introduction. If it is true, as Thomas
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