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Convert this text to Markdown with correct reading order Only use text from original context. ``` Albert Einstein Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was only his years in Aarau and Berne employee of the Federal Patent Office that he looked back on fondly. “Einstein in Berne. His annus mirabilis fell in the liked to think back to his time in Berne, middle of this period: in 1905 he pub which he spoke of more often and more lished no less than five revolutionary positively than of Zurich,” Wolfgang papers. These included the Theory of Pauli wrote in an obituary in the Neue Special Relativity and the Light Quanta Zürcher Zeitung. Hypothesis, for which, among other Nonetheless, it appears he actually achievements, he was later awarded had a good time there. From 1896 to the Nobel Prize. 1900, Einstein studied physics at ETH, Einstein then moved back to Zurich then known as the Federal Polytech a second time, when the University nical School. He appreciated the in created an associate professorship in stitution’s liberal spirit: as a student theoretical physics especially for him. there, you could “more or less do as Professor Einstein was usually ill-pre Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 “for his services you liked.” So he put together a study pared: his lecture notes often consisted to theoretical physics, and especially plan entirely to his own taste: “Some of a scrap of paper the size of a visiting for his discovery of the laws of the photo lectures I followed with great interest. electric effect” Otherwise, I skipped class often and * 14 March 1879 in Ulm stayed at home to study the masters 1905 was Einstein’s annus of theoretical physics with holy fer † 18 April 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey mirabilis: the physicist published no less than five vor.” This self-study took place mainly In 1905 Albert Einstein submitted his revolu in Hottingen, where Einstein rented tionary paper “Eine neue Bestimmung der groundbreaking papers. lodgings from various landladies. He Moleküldimensionen” (A New Determination also spent much time in the Pension card. But he was so selflessly devoted of Molecular Dimensions) as a dissertation at Engelbrecht at Plattenstrasse 50, where to his students that they wrote a letter the University of Zurich. his friend, colleague, and later wife, of protest to the education department From 1909 to 1911 he was Professor for Mileva Marić, had lodgings. when he moved to Prague after only Theoretical Physics at the University of Zurich. Einstein’s favorite leisure activity three semesters. was playing the violin. He was regu Einstein returned to Zurich again larly invited by Alfred Stern, a histo in 1912, this time as Professor for The rian at the ETH, and his family, to enjoy oretical Physics at ETH. He was now Zurich and the a meal and make music with them. well established: he had few teaching Annus Mirabilis In summer, he enjoyed sailing on the responsibilities and a good salary, so Lake of Zurich, in winter he loved hair that he could permit himself an impos Albert Einstein and Zurich – it could raising sledge rides on the Zürichberg. ing apartment on the Zürichberg. Otto have been a real love story. Einstein, And he could often be found happily Stern had followed him from Prague to born in Ulm in 1879, was a resident of sitting in the Café Metropol on the Zurich, as his assistant, and served as Zurich, obtaining citizenship in 1901, Stadthausquai. sparring partner and “calculating ma and lived there for almost eight years After graduating from ETH, Ein chine.” But again, Einstein only man altogether, longer than in any other stein worked from 1902 to 1909 as an aged to stay in Zurich for a year and a Swiss town. In retrospect, however, it [www.nobelpreis.uzh.ch/en\_einstein.html](http://www.nobelpreis.uzh.ch/en_einstein.html) Albert Einstein – Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 1/4 ``` |