albert einstein

born
14 March 1879 (1879-03-14)Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Died
18 April 1955 (1955-04-19) (aged 76)Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Residence
Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Citizenship
Württemberg/Germany (1879–96)Switzerland (1901–55)Austria (1911–12)Germany (1914–33)United States (1940–55)
Ethnicity
Ashkenazi Jewish
Fields
Physics
Institutions
Swiss Patent Office (Berne)University of ZurichGerman Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, PragueETH ZurichPrussian Academy of SciencesKaiser Wilhelm InstituteUniversity of LeidenInstitute for Advanced Study
Alma mater
ETH ZurichUniversity of Zurich
Doctoral advisor
Alfred Kleiner
Other academic advisors
Heinrich Friedrich Weber
Notable students
Ernst G. StrausNathan Rosen
Known for
General relativitySpecial relativityPhotoelectric effectBrownian motionMass-energy equivalenceEinstein field equationsUnified Field TheoryBose–Einstein statistics
Notable awards
Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)Copley Medal (1925)Max Planck Medal (1929)Person of the Century