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    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein in 1921
    Born 14 March 1879
    Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
    Died 18 April 1955 (aged 76)
    Princeton, New Jersey, United States
    Residence Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States
    Ethnicity Jewish
    Citizenship

    Württemberg/Germany (until 1896)
    Stateless (1896–1901)
    Switzerland (from 1901)
    Austria (1911–12)
    Germany (1914–33)
    United States (from 1940)[1]

    Alma mater

    ETH Zurich
    University of Zurich

    Known for

    General relativity and special relativity
    Photoelectric effect
    Mass-energy equivalence
    Quantification of the Brownian motion
    Einstein field equations
    Bose–Einstein statistics
    Unified Field Theory

    Spouse

    Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
    Elsa Löwenthal, née Einstein, (1919–1936)

    Awards

    Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
    Copley Medal (1925)
    Max Planck Medal (1929)
    Time Person of the Century

    Signature

    Albert Einstein (play /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪnʃtaɪn] ( listen); 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born American theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics.[2] He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".[3] The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory within physics.

    Near the beginning of his career, Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic field. This led to the development of his special theory of relativity. He realized, however, that the principle of relativity could also be extended to gravitational fields, and with his subsequent theory of gravitation in 1916, he published a paper on the general theory of relativity. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules. He also investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light. In 1917, Einstein applied the general theory of relativity to model the structure of the universe as a whole.[4]

    He was visiting the United States when Hitler came to power in 1933, and did not go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in the U.S., becoming a citizen in 1940. On the eve of World War II, he helped alert President Franklin D. Roosevelt that Germany might be developing an atomic weapon, and recommended that the U.S. begin similar research. Later, together with Bertrand Russell, Einstein signed the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, which highlighted the danger of nuclear weapons. Einstein taught physics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, until his death in 1955.

    Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with over 150 non-scientific works.[4][5] His great intelligence and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius.[6]
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