2 Quotes & Sayings By Albert Einstien

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. He is best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E=mc2, which describes a massive particle's release and absorption of energy. 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", a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory. Scientists have named components of the atom after him, including the Albert Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship at Tel Aviv University. Albert Einstein was born in Ulm (then part of German Empire) Read more

His father was an officer in the Swiss Army and later a schoolteacher at Eschenbach School (now part of Ulm University), where Albert was born on 14 March 1879. At age 16 he left school to apprentice at his father's business, Albert Einstien & Cie., which published maps and school textbooks. After six years, he left to study at Zurich Polytechnic School, where he stayed until 1902.

In 1905 he completed his examination as an electrical engineer and returned to Ulm to work for his father's company. Here he worked on technical problems associated with radio transmission and building wireless sets. Einstein became interested in physics through reading the scientific journal "Annalen der Physik". In October 1909, he left Ulm for Leiden to start an assistantship under Professor Willem de Sitter at the newly formed Institute for Theoretical Physics (now the Niels Bohr Institute).

After staying there for only three weeks, however, he accepted Hermann Minkowski's offer to come to Berlin as a research assistant under Max Planck at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, where he worked until 1914. In 1907 Einstein applied for membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin but was rejected due to insufficient mathematical proficiency. He reworked this application several times before receiving full membership in 1913. He began working on special relativity while serving as an observer for the British Naval Intelligence during World War I from 1915 onwards.

During this period, he also lectured at the Swiss Federal Technical College from 1918 onwards. In 1919, shortly after being granted Swiss citizenship by Marguerite Patten-Einstein, he married her sister Elsa Löwenthal; they remained married until his death in 1955. That same year Einstein applied to become director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for