Born

March 14, 1879(1879-03-14)
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire

Died

April 18, 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Residence

Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA

Citizenship

Württemberg/Germany (1879–96)
Stateless (1896-1901)
Switzerland (1901–55)
Austria (1911–12)
Germany (1914–33)
United States (1940–55)

Ethnicity

Jewish

Fields

Physics

Institutions

Swiss Patent Office (Bern)
University of Zurich
Charles University in Prague
ETH Zurich
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
University of Leiden
Institute for Advanced Study

 

 

Notable students

Ernst G. Straus
Nathan Rosen

Known for

General relativity
Special relativity
Photoelectric effect
Brownian motion
Mass-energy equivalence
Einstein field equations
Unified Field Theory
Bose–Einstein statistics

Notable awards

Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
Copley Medal (1925)
Max Planck Medal (1929)
Time Person of the Century

Information Corner

*He was a German-American physicst.

*He is best known for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, which he received a Nobel Prize for.

*As a Jewish scientist he had to flee from Nazi Germany.

*His last major effort was an attempt to unify electromagnetism and gravity into a single unified field theory, still an active problem of physics

 

 

 

 

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