Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German physicist of Jewish origin, nationalized after Swiss, Austrian and
American. He is considered the best-known and most popular scientist of the 20th century.

In 1905, when he was an unknown young physicist, employed in the Patent Office of Berne, he
published his theory of special relativity. In it he incorporated, in a simple theoretical framework
based on simple physical postulates, concepts and phenomena previously studied by Henri
Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz. As a logical consequence of this theory, he deduced the
equation of physics best known at the popular level: mass-energy equivalence, E = mc². That
year he published other works that would lay some of the foundations of statistical physics and
quantum mechanics.

Date of birth: March 14, 1879, Ulm, Germany

Death: April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Children: Eduard Einstein, Lieserl Einstein, Hans Albert Einstein

Spouse: Elsa Einstein (m. 1919-1936), Mileva Marić (m. 1903-1919)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics,

Education: University of Zurich (1905),