Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German-born American ___(1)___ . He finished his secondary ___(2)___ in Switzerland, ___(3)___ entered the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. After his ___(4)___. In 1900, he got a ___(5)___ in the Swiss patent office in Bern in 1902. In 1903 he married Milaca Marci, a classmate of his at the polytechnic. In 1905 Einstein received his ___(6)___ from the University of Zurich for a ___(7)___ on the dimensions of molecules. That same year, he published three ___(8)___ of central importance to the development of 20th century physics. In his papers, Einstein made significant ___(9)___ about the motion of particles randomly distributed in a fluid, and a revolutionary hypothesis that light can be ___(10)___ as consisting of particles with individual energies. In 1905 he published a remarkable paper known as the special theory of relativity.