Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, to a Jewish family and grew up in Munich. At five, he later recalled, a compass needle that always pointed north filled him with wonder about hidden forces. He disliked the rote learning of his school, left without finishing, and completed his studies in Switzerland. Unable to find a university post, he worked as a clerk in the patent office in Bern. In 1905, his miracle year, he published four papers: one explained the photoelectric effect using particles of light, one gave evidence for atoms, one set out the special theory of relativity, showing that measurements of time and space depend on motion, and one showed that energy and mass are equivalent, E = mc². In 1915 he completed the general theory of relativity, describing gravity as the curving of space and time, which was confirmed during a solar eclipse in 1919 and made him world famous. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. When the Nazis came to power in 1933 he emigrated to the United States, working at Princeton until his death in 1955.

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Faith: Born to secular, middle-class Jewish parents. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica