Hans Albert Einstein is the second son of one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein, who radically changed the ideas of the science of the Universe.
Father
Albert Einstein was born 03/15/1879in a Jewish family living at that time in the small German town of Ulm. His father Herman owned a company that stuffed pillows and mattresses with feathers. Albert's mother was the daughter of a famous maize seller in the town.
В 1880 г. семья Эйнштейна переехала в Мюнхен.Here, Albert's father, together with his brother Jacob, opened a small company that sells electrical equipment. In Munich, Albert had a sister, Maria. In the same city, the boy first went to school. She was visited by the children of Catholics. According to the memoirs of the scientist, at the age of 13, he withdrew from religious beliefs and joined the science. All that was said in the Bible has ceased to seem plausible to him. He began to form as a person, skeptical about everything, including the authorities.
The most vivid impressions of childhood, which remained for the rest of his life with Albert, are the compass and Euclid's work, The Beginning.
Mother insisted that the future Nobellaureate engaged in music. Albert began to play the violin and got carried away with it. Traction to music remained with him for life. Already in his mature years, while in the USA, the scientist even gave a concert to immigrants who came from Germany. He performed the composition of Mozart on the violin.
In 1894, the Einstein family moved to the small town of Pavia, near Milan. Here own production was transferred from Munich.
In 1895, the future scientist arrived in Switzerland.In this country, he wanted to go to college to become a physics teacher. However, Albert was unable to pass tests on botany. Then the young genius went to study at the school of the town of Arau. Here he became interested in the study of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.
The next place of study of the future Nobel laureate was the Polytechnic of Zurich. Here he met the mathematician Grossman. Here I met my future spouse, Mileva Maric.
Polytechnic diploma Albert Einstein received in1900, but could not find a permanent job in the specialty. In order to survive and feed the family, the future Nobel laureate had to become an employee of the patent agency. In his spare time, he did not cease to engage in scientific problems.
In 1903, Albert's father died. In the same year he legalized his relations with Mileva Maric.
The coming to power of Hitler made Albertleave Germany. He moved to America, where he became a professor at Princeton University. The great natural scientist died in 1955. The cause of his death was an aortic aneurysm.
Mother
Mileva Maric is the first wife of Albert Einstein. She was a Serbian by nationality, born in Hungary. This is the only girl who studied at the Zurich Polytechnic School.
Mileva Maric was older than Albert Einsteinthree and a half years. However, this did not prevent their love. Soon after they met, the young began to live in a civil marriage. For the people around them, such a union seemed somewhat strange. After all, young Einstein was distinguished by amazing charm, attractiveness and ease of communication. In contrast, Mileva was ugly. Her stunted figure was spoiled by slouching and lameness that arose after suffering bone marrow tuberculosis. But at the same time, Mileva was a very talented mathematician, had a deep intellect. And the absence of excessive respect for various authorities in her character finally brought her closer to Albert.
In addition, young people both loved music andgood food It is also important that Mileva was a great hostess. It is possible that Einstein subconsciously sought a woman who could take off the burden of everyday problems. After all, according to the memoirs of friends, as a student, Albert was unable to focus on everyday worries. Mileva, by contrast, was a practical man, something that reminded Einstein of his mother.
Parents Hans Wedding
Einstein did not hide his civil marriage.They knew about him and his parents. But they did not give the son permission for the wedding. Albert's mother thought Mileva was repulsive and ugly, and her father wanted to see only Jewish nationality as her daughter-in-law.
Everything changed after Herman Einstein became incurably ill. Saying goodbye to his son, he still blessed his marriage. And on January 6, 1903, the young became husband and wife, legalizing their relationship in Bern.
First child
Hans Albert Einstein never saw hissister She was born in 1902, when her parents were in a civil marriage. An illegitimate child could ruin the scientific career of a young genius. And therefore, being pregnant, Mileva went to her parents. Here in Hungary, she gave birth to a daughter Liezerl. In order for no one to know about an illegitimate infant, the girl was immediately given up for foster parents.
Mileva pledged never to look for a daughter and notmeet her. According to some information, the girl has lived absolutely not for long. While still a baby, she fell ill with transient scarlet fever and died. Einstein never saw his daughter and never told anyone about her.
Son of genius
05/14/1904 was born Hans Albert Einstein.The boy's biography began in Bern. In the streets of this city, his happy father rushed, who, having learned about the birth of his son, fled at full speed to kiss his wife and baby.
Первый сын Эйнштейна был очень любим родителями.According to the memoirs of the friends of the great scientist, they often saw Albert, who in one hand was holding copies of works written up and down, and the second was rocking a pram with a sleeping baby.
The fate of the second son
In 1910In the Einstein family, another boy was born - Edward. He had wonderful musical abilities. However, the second son of the scientist was very painful, and at the age of 20, after suffering a nervous breakdown, he was diagnosed with "schizophrenia." At one time Edward Einstein was under the supervision of his mother. But a little later, Mileva placed her son in a psychiatric hospital.
Albert Einstein, who by this time alreadydivorced his wife, was not surprised at all by the illness of his son, who was affectionately called “Tetel” or “Tete”. The fact is that Sister Mileva suffered from schizophrenia. Edward Einstein also often behaved in such a way that clearly indicated the presence of the disease in him too. However, a slightly different opinion was shared by the eldest son of a great scientist. Hans Albert Einstein believed that the final destruction of his brother's psyche was due to the treatment using electric shock at that time.
Albert Einstein moved to live in the USA a year later.after his aunt ended up in a psychiatric hospital. And since then, communication with sons has been limited to letters only. Eduard's father sent rare, but very emotional messages. In one of them, for example, the scientist compared people with the sea, saying that they can be both friendly and affable, as well as difficult and stormy.
After death in 1948mother Edward Einstein was in a village near Zurich, where he was looked after by Dr. Heinrich Miley. He lived at the local pastor and gradually began to make contact with people. Edward even began to earn money by writing addresses on envelopes on the instructions of one of the local companies.
However, after some time, the guardian relocatedhis ward to the widow of a lawyer who lived on the outskirts of Zurich. This worsened the mental state of Edward. In 1954, the great scientist refused all contact with his younger son. He explained his deed with the conviction that the correspondence was painful for both.
In 1965, Edward died. According to one of the researchers, he was ruined by love for his neighbors, which turned out to be an unbearable burden for him.
Parental divorce
Since 1912between Albert and Mileva, relations have become more than tense. The reason was the enthusiasm of the scientist for his cousin Elsa Leventhal. In 1914, Maric went with children to Zurich, having received from the spouse a notarized commitment to keep the family annually in the amount of 5,600 Reichsmarks. The official divorce couple issued 02/14/1919
Between Einstein and Maric was concludedagreement. It provided for the transfer to the former wife of the monetary part of the expected Nobel Prize scientist. The financial resources that Albert Einstein would receive would have to be taken in their trust. Maric remained receiving interest.
Life after parents divorce
In June 1919The scientist came to Zurich, where he spent time with his children. The son of Albert Einstein, Hans, went with his father on a sailing tour of Lake Constance, and with Edward the great naturalist visited Arosa, where he was treated with a sanatorium boy.
Mileva and her sons lived in extremely crampedcircumstances However, in 1922, after receiving the former husband of the Nobel Prize, she acquired three houses in Zurich. In one of them, Maric moved to live with her sons, while the other two served as long-term investments. However, everything changed after Eduard was made a terrible diagnosis. Two houses Mileva had to sell. All funds went to pay for the treatment of her son at the University Hospital Zurich. In order not to lose the main house, the woman transferred the rights to his possession to her ex-husband, who fulfilled his obligations to transfer funds for the maintenance of the former family.
Career of the eldest son of the great scientist
Hans Albert Einstein decided to follow in his footstepsparents. For this, he received a diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, located in Zurich, where he graduated in 1926. Then for four years he worked as a designer on a project of a bridge under construction in Dortmund. Already in 1936, Hans Albert defended his doctoral thesis, receiving a degree for it.
Emigration
After Albert Einstein, fleeing fromanti-Semitic threat, left Germany, he advised his eldest son to do the same. In 1938, Hans Albert Einstein left Switzerland and moved to South Carolina, to the city of Greenville. Here he worked as a hydraulic engineer in the US Department of Agriculture. His duties included the study of sediment. Work in the Department lasted from 1938 to 1943.
Since 1947, Hans Albert Einstein -Adjunct Professor, University of California, Hydraulics, Berkeley. But that was not the end of his career. Somewhat later, he became an honorary professor at the same university.
Being a highly qualified specialist inof his field, Hans Albert traveled the world a lot. He constantly participated in hydrotechnical conferences at various levels, even after 1971, when he retired. At one of these symposia in Woodshall (Massachusetts), Hans Albert Einstein was in 1973, where he died of a heart attack on July 26.
Awards
For his work in the field of hydraulics and the study of bottom sediments, Hans Albert was awarded:
- Guggenheim scholarships (in 1953);
- scientific awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers (in 1959 and in 1960);
- Certificate of honor from the US Department of Agriculture (in 1971);
- Award from the University of California (1971);
- a certificate of recognition of more than 20 years of impeccable and dedicated service from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (in 1972).
Personal life
After parents divorce relationship, Hans Albertwith his father became more than strained. The son accused the great scientist of having put Milev in an extremely difficult financial situation, giving her the use of only a percentage of the Nobel Prize received.
The differences between son and father have become even moredeep after the great scientist spoke out against the marriage of Hans to Fred Knecht. The girl was three years older than the guy. In addition, according to Einstein Sr., there was nothing attractive in it. The scientist cursed such a union, accusing Fred of treachery and the pursuit of his son. After unsuccessful attempts to quarrel young Albert Einstein began to beg them not to have children, so as not to complicate, in his opinion, the inevitable divorce.
Reconciliation between father and son did not come even during the period of their life in the United States. They were always apart. After the death of the great scientist's son, practically nothing was left in the inheritance.
Несмотря на ссору с отцом, в 1927 г.Frieda Knecht was still married to Hans Albert Einstein. His personal life was successful. He was with this woman together until her death in 1958. Having widowed, he married again. His wife was Elizabeth Roboz.
Hans and Frida had three children of their own.However, only one of them survived to mature age. Bernhard Caesar Einstein (July 10, 1930 - September 30, 2008) was an engineer-physicist. The couple also had an adopted daughter, Evelyn. She died in 2011 in extreme poverty.
Hans Albert was an avid sailor.Often with colleagues and his family, he went on trips to San Francisco. He was fond of the son of the great scientist photography. He also gave his scientific lectures using a hand-made slide show. Just like his father, Hans loved music and knew how to play the flute and the piano. This is mentioned on his tombstone.
