Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 in Germany. As he was Jewish he moved to the US to escape Hitler and the war.
Unbelievably when his grandmother first saw him, she said he was stupid…little did she know!
Apparently he didn’t talk until he was four years old, and even then he would repeat words and sentences over and over again until he was seven.
When he was about five years old his Dad gave him a simple pocket compass, which became his favorite toy!
From that day on he became obsessed with magnetism, which is pretty much all about magnets.
Apparently young Einstein didn’t like the way his grammar school taught him, with all that discipline. He also didn’t really care all that much for authority…so he got expelled from a school.
Another headmaster also told him that nothing would ever come of him!
Well, wasn’t that was another one who completely didn’t know what this genius would get up to in later life?