aused him to continue to work at the patent office until 1909. Finally, his theory of relativity was beginning to be recognized by the world's greatest scientific minds, even though it was not fully understood by many of them. This led him to accept a professorship at the German University in Prague. During his time in Prague, the name Einstein continued to climb the ladder of the great scientists of his time. In 1912, he returned once again to the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, where only 12 years earlier he had been denied any kind of teaching position. Now, he was offered a full professorship, and even though it was tempting for him to turn them down based solely on their turning their collective backs on him, but the opportunity was simply too good to turn down.It was a chance to teach at a prestigious school, and it also enabled him to do research at the Institute during his spare time. Two years later, in 1914, he was on the move yet once again. This time he accepted a job teaching at the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which was considered at that time about as close to the top as you can possibly get as a professor. A few of his colleagues included the great scientific names of Planck, Nernst, and von Laue. The greatest thing for Einstein about the Academy, however, was that they allowed him to devote almost all of his time to research, and had full use of all of the school's scientific equipment and laboratories. After jumping from job to job for some time, he was finally able to stabilize his professional life, as he continued to work there fortwenty years. During World War I, even though he was a scientist, and working in Germany, Albert gave no assistance to the German government to help the war effort. During his time in Switzerland, not only had he become a Swiss citizen, but at pacifist as well. Einstein had also become interested in the movement to develop a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. This was...
