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On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. When he was in grade school, Einstein was considered a terrible student by most of his teachers; they thought he was slow and badly behaved. In fact, he did so poor in school that he ended up working in a patent office as his first career. Now, however, Albert Einstein is widely regarded as one of the most intelligent people in the history of science. In addition to creating the famous equation E=mc^2, Einstein made several other groundbreaking discoveries, such as proving the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) and showing how gravity works (as opposed to just showing what gravity does). One of his most prominent works is his theory of relativity. Einstein’s theory of relat...