Einstein Biographical Facts II
In 1896 he was able to enroll at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
By 1902 he had secured a position as patent examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern, where he worked for the next 7 years.
The year 1905 was a significant year for science. At the age of 26, Einstein published four papers in the journal Annalen der Physik. Four Papers.
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