Unit 1. Who are You? » Стр.17 (22b)

b) Choose a person from the list in 'a' and write his biography in short. Albert Einstein, the most influential physicist of the 20th century, was born on March 14th, 1879 in Germany. As a child he was slow in learning how to speak, but this slow verbal development made him curious about ordinary things - such as space and time. His father gave him a compass at the age of five, and Albert puzzled over the nature of a magnetic field for the rest of his life. When he was in college he was never very organized and often skipped classes, but the records show that he was actually an exeptional student. He scored high grades during his school days and was only frustrrated by what he described as the “mechanical discopline” , demanted by his teachers. The future Nobel Laureate dropped out of school at the age of 15 and left Germany to avoid state-mandated military service, but befire then he was considered something of prodigy for his grasp of complex mathematical and scientific concepts. It has been believed over the years that Albert Einstein dealt with ADHD throghout his life. It is Known that people with ADHD can work with a number of processes that are used to allow them to focus in on individual detail and to focus on working with a number of though processes. This is used to make sure that the distractions that they would have to deal with can be eliminated so that it will be easier to think about things. This could have been a major factor as to why Einstein was able to be as creative as he was.