Report card shows Albert Einstein aced physics, math in high school

A high school certificate issued to Albert Einstein shows that the legendary theoretical physicist excelled in math and science subjects as a teenager.

While this may seem a no-brainer, the Nobel Foundation said on Tuesday that the certificate contradicts a popular idea that Einstein performed poorly in those subjects as a student.

“Contrary to widespread myth, Albert Einstein was good at mathematics in high school,” the Nobel Foundation said in a post, adding that the certificate was given to the theoretical physicist by the Cantonal High School in Aarau, Switzerland, when he was 17.

In the card, it can be seen that he scored 6—the highest score—in Algebra, Descriptive Geometry, Geometry, Physics, and History.

His lowest score was a 3 in French language and literature.

The Nobel Prize Facebook page posted this interesting fact ahead of its announcement of the winners of the 2022 Physics Nobel Prize, which went to three scientists for their work in quantum mechanics.

Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his “services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.” 

He died in 1955 at the age of 76. — Franchesca Viernes/BM, GMA News