His Childhood Years: Albert Einstein was born March 14, 1879, in the small town of Ulm, in Southern Germany. His parents, Hermann and Pauline, were Jewish. His father was an electrician whom also was interested in electrical inventions. However he was very unsuccessful in his business, and as soon as Albert was born, the family moved to Munich. As a child Einstein was very lonely and shy. He preferred to play with himself in the parks and the woods. He first realized the wonders of science at the age of four, when his dad introduced him to magnets and their properties. Einstein later said: " That Experience made a deep and lasting impression on me." Later