Albert Einstein – Biography, Theories, Quotes & Death
Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, in Wurttemberg (German Empire), and died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey (United States), was a theoretical physicist. He was successively German, stateless (1896), Swiss (1901), and of dual Swiss - American nationality (1940). He married Mileva Einstein-Maric, then his cousin Elsa Einstein.He published his theory of special relativity in 1905 and his theory of gravitation called general relativity in 1915. He contributed greatly to the development of quantum mechanics and cosmology and received the Nobel Prize in physics of 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.His work is notably known to the general public for the equation E = mc², which establishes an equivalence between the mass and the energy of a ...