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About Albert Einstein

Born14 March 1879

Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire

Died18 April 1955 (aged 76)

Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

Citizenship

Kingdom of Württemberg, part of the German Empire (1879–1896)[note 1]

Stateless (1896–1901)

Switzerland (1901–1955)

Austria, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911–1912)

Kingdom of Prussia, part of the German Empire (1914–1918)[note 1]

Free State of Prussia (Weimar Republic, 1918–1933)

United States (1940–1955)

Education

Federal polytechnic school in Zurich (Federal teaching diploma, 1900)

University of Zurich (PhD, 1905)

Known for

General relativity

Special relativity

Photoelectric effect

E=mc2 (Mass–energy equivalence)

E=hf (Planck–Einstein relation)

Theory of Brownian motion

Einstein field equations

Bose–Einstein statistics

Bose–Einstein condensate

Gravitational wave

Cosmological constant

Unified field theory

EPR paradox

Ensemble interpretation

List of other concepts

Spouse(s)

Mileva Marić

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(m. 1903; div. 1919)​

Elsa Löwenthal

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(m. 1919; died[1][2] 1936)​

Children

Lieserl

Hans Albert

Eduard "Tete"

Awards

Barnard Medal (1920)

Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)

Matteucci Medal (1921)

ForMemRS (1921)[3]

Copley Medal (1925)[3]

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1926)[4]

Max Planck Medal (1929)

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1942)[5]

Time Person of the Century (1999)

Scientific careerFieldsPhysics, philosophyInstitutions

Swiss Patent Office (Bern) (1902–1909)

University of Bern (1908–1909)

University of Zurich (1909–1911)

Charles University in Prague (1911–1912)

ETH Zurich (1912–1914)

Prussian Academy of Sciences (1914–1933)

Humboldt University of Berlin (1914–1933)

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (director, 1917–1933)

German Physical Society (president, 1916–1918)

Leiden University (visits, 1920)

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1933–1955)

California Institute of Technology (visits, 1931–1933)

University

(1933–1955)

California Institute of Technology (visits, 1931–1933)

University of Oxford (visits, 1931–1933)

Brandeis University (director, 1946–1947)

ThesisEine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions) (1905)Doctoral advisorAlfred KleinerOther academic advisorsHeinrich Friedrich WeberInfluences

Arthur Schopenhauer

Baruch Spinoza

Bernhard Riemann

David Hume

Ernst Mach

Hendrik Lorentz

Hermann Minkowski

Isaac Newton

James Clerk Maxwell

Michele Besso

Moritz Schlick

Thomas Young

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Influenced

Virtually all modern physicists

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