The last time we saw Honest John was when he struggling through gym class. He was considering dropping out when another teacher happened to mention that if he would like to leave, it would do the faculty an enormous favor. Other students did not respect the teachers anymore because Albert was still asking what seemed to be unanswerable questions. Albert happily left, and attempted to enroll in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, but was told that he needed a diploma. To get a diploma, Albert attended school in Aarau, and found that Swiss schools were much more student- friendly in Switzerland. After he got his diploma, he worked in a patent examining office. He was very efficient, and learned how to explain things clearly there, which most likely helped him in describing his many theories.

In January 1903, Albert married Milva Maric, a women he described as very smart. They had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. They also had a daughter, Liseral, a year before they were married, but put her up for adoption. Having a child before you were married was considered scandalous, and Albert and Milva probably thought it best to put her up for adoption. Although Albert dearly loved his offspring, he must not have loved Milva as much, because he divorced in 1919. He married his cousin named Elsa, who had two daughters, Margot and Ilse.

After working at the patent office and earning his diploma and graduating from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Albert took a job teaching at the University of Zurich. He moved from there to the University of Prague to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

You’d think that everyone would like this bright, shy man, right. And most people did. But while Albert was gaining fame, so was a guy with a mustache that looked like the bristles on the end of a toothbrush. His name was Adolf Hitler.

While on a boat coming back from Belgium, Albert received word that Nazis had broken into his villa in Carpath, even dug up the garden supposedly searching for weapons. The only thing close to a weapon that they found was a bread knife.

As a Jew with a lot of influence all over the world, Hitler had a bit of a grudge against a Jewish man about as well known as and a heck of a lot smarter than Hitler himself. When a book of so- called criminals was published in Germany, Albert was on the front page, with a caption that read "Noch Ungehangt", which, roughly translated, means " Not Yet Hanged".

As if being the most famous scientist of his time wasn’t bad enough, Albert was a pacifist, and therefore even more unusual in Nazi Germany. Rumored to be on an assassin list, Albert had to flee Europe. He settled on Princeton, New Jersey as his destination.