Albert Einstein: A genius named Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany, on March 14th, 1879, into a middle-class Jewish family. Einstein grew up in Munich, Germany, he wasn't able to speak until the age of three, and he struggled in his earlier years in the education system, experiencing a speech difficulty. He didn't believe in formal education and labeled it useless, he had a great interest in advanced math and physics, and started teaching himself both. He later wrote about when he saw his first compass and marveled at the way the invisible forces turned the needle when he was five, and discovering a geometry book when he was twelve and reading it cover to cover, multiple times. While living in Munich, his family …show more content…
He changed the way people looked at Newton's theories and Quantum Mechanics. Einstein was always a promoter of world peace but while touring the world explaining his theories in the 1920's, the Nazi's were rising to power, and Einstein's studies on relativity was a huge target for Nazi propaganda. They soon barred Jews from holding official positions, including teaching at universities, and Albert had much reason to believe he was on a list of assassination targets. He left Germany forever and took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, as a …show more content…
This African American man known as Jesse Owens, was born the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves, still in much segregated times. He was a frail young man and was often sick with battles of bronchial congestion and pneumonia, but was still expected to work. When he was seven, he was picking up to one hundred pounds of cotton a day, to help his family put food on the table. Owens was noticed in elementary school running around the playground as a talented runner by a white man, named Charles Riley who recognized the athleticism he displayed. Jesse later noted that Charles Riley was the first white man he ever knew, and his caring friendship, gave him hope that there were more out there like him, that would understand and come to love African