Albert Einstein
Theoretical physicist
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist whose name is tied to the theory of relativity. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Born 1879 in Ulm, Germany Died 1955
Influenced by Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud, Baruch Spinoza
About Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in 1879 and died in 1955. He studied in Zurich, worked at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, and moved to Berlin in 1914. In 1905 he published four papers, covering the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy. In 1915 he put forward general relativity, which brought gravitation into his physics. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect. He was visiting the United States when Hitler came to power in 1933, and he stayed, becoming an American citizen in 1940. He also spoke widely on politics, ethics and social causes. Relativity is his book in the BookBits catalog.