Albert Einstein was taught at home for a while as a child, and when he eventually went to school he was perceived to be developmentally disabled. In high school he was almost expelled on the claim that all he did in class was sit in the back of the room smiling. He dropped out at the age of 16.
Barely making it through college, he couldn't get any type of a job in the science field, and settled for work at the Swiss patent office, evaluating patent applications. In the evenings after work, he developed his own ideas about physics, and in 1905, he published four papers that forever changed the world of physics and introduced the Special Theory of Relativity and his famous equation, E = mc2.
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Ah, yes. E=mc2. That famous equation which describes the amount of energy (E) that resides in every object that possesses an amount of mass, m. Because the speed of light, denoted by c, is an extremely large number, its square is even larger, which implies that even a small object possesses an enormous energy of mass.
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