Getting expelled from school-----even a schoolhe hated was very painful for Albert he was embarassed to have failed so openly. He was angry with his teachers. He was disappointed in himself. Yet he was also excited that he would soon see his family.
Albert joined his parents and sister in nortern Italy was so different for Germany.Albert quickly fell in love with the country. Italians were so friendly,civilized,and open-minded. For the next to years. Albert went to concerts and visited art museums. Best of all,he had time to read and to think. He studied the lives of scientists,including those who had suffered because their thinking had gone against widely held ideas of the time. For example,there was Nicholas Copernicus(1473-1543),the polish astronomer. He was very severly criticized for stating that the the earth orbited around the sun and not vice versa. A hundred years later,in 1633,Galileo Galelei, and Italian scientist, was arrested for agreeing with Copernicus. Yet in Albert's time,no sane person believed that the sun circles the earth.
The study of other scientists' theories pushed Albert thinking further in Italy,he had the time to write those thoughts and answer many of the questions he had been asking himself for years. Now hewas a real scientist. He even had his first scientific paper published in a magazine,while he was still a teenager!
When scientists have newnideas to share,they write about them in scientic journals. For Albert as for all scientists,getting papers published was very important;it was the only way other scientists could learn about his ideas and thoughts.
