Everybody knows that Albert Einstein was born In Germany. But maybe someone doesn't know that he moved to Switzerland when he was 16 years old and he got Swiss citizenship six years later.
After becoming Swiss he settled in Bern where he started working at the Swiss Federal Patent Office as a "technical expert third class."

In 1905, while living at Kramgasse No. 49, Albert Einstein developed the Special Theory of Relativity.
His work on the General Theory also began in Bern.

In 1906 he was promoted to "expert second class." His bread-winning job left him enough time for his scientific work. In 1908 he lectured at Bern University, and in 1909 he resigned from the Patent Office in order to take up the post of associate professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University.


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