Born 14 March 1879(1879-03-14)
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died 18 April 1955(1955-04-18) (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Residence Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Citizenship

* Württemberg/Germany (until 1896)
* Stateless (1896–1901)
* Switzerland (from 1901)
* Austria (1911–1912)
* Germany (1914–1933)
* United States (from 1940)[1]

Alma mater

* ETH Zurich
* University of Zurich

Known for

* General relativity and special relativity
* Photoelectric effect
* Mass-energy equivalence
* Quantification of the Brownian motion
* Einstein field equations
* Bose–Einstein statistics
* Unified Field Theory

Spouse Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
Elsa Löwenthal, née Einstein, (1919–1936)
Awards

* Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
* Copley Medal (1925)
* Max Planck Medal (1929)
* Time Person of the Century (1999)

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