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professor at the local university and took up Prussian citizenship. He became world famous when his theory of relativity proved true after British solar eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed the deflection of light rays from the distant stars by the gravity of the sun.

He and Mileva had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. The elder boy became a professor of hydraulic engineering at University of California at Berkeley, but had little interaction with his famous father. The younger son suffered from schizophrenia and died in an asylum. Einstein divorced his wife in 1919 and married a second cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. There were no children from this marriage.

On March 30, 1921, Einstein traveled to New York to give a lecture on his new Theory of Relativity. This same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize though it was for his earlier work on the photoelectric effect.

In December of 1932, Einstein took a job as guest professor at Princeton University at the invitation of American educator, Abraham Flexner. In January of 1933, Adolph Hitler passed a law, which forced all Jewish university professors out of their jobs and labeled Einstein's work as "Jewish Physics." At this time, Einstein renounced his Prussian citizenship and became a permanent resident of the United States. In 1940, he became an American citizen and soon after he accepted a permanent position at the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Township, New Jersey. After the war, Einstein served on the original committee, which resulted in the founding of Brandeis University. In 1952, Einstein became the only American ever to be offered a post as a foreign head of state when the government of Israel offered to make him its second president.

His life ended on April 18, 1955, in Princeton Hospital, New Jersey. He was seventy-six years of age. He is widely regarded as the most important scientist of the twentieth century. His journey was both profound and simple, for he came a long way from the small child who first viewed the universe through the compass of a loving father.

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