| Albert Einstein | … |
|---|---|
| Einstein in 1947 | … |
| Born | 14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
| Died | 18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Citizenship | See list • Kingdom of Württemberg , part of the German Empire (until 1896) 1 Stateless (1896–1901) Switzerland (from 1901) Kingdom of Prussia , part of the German Empire (1914–1918) 1 Free State of Prussia (Weimar Republic , 1918–1933) 1 U.S. (from 1940) |
| Education | • Swiss federal polytechnic school (teaching diploma, 1900) • University of Zurich (PhD , 1905) |
| Known for | • General relativity • Special relativity • Photoelectric effect • E = mc (mass–energy equivalence) • E = hf (Planck–Einstein relation) • Theory of Brownian motion • Einstein field equations • Bose–Einstein statistics • Bose–Einstein condensate • Gravitational wave • Cosmological constant • Unified field theory • EPR paradox • Ensemble interpretation • List of other concepts |
| Spouses | Mileva Marić (m. 1903; div. 1919) Elsa Löwenthal (m. 1919; died 1936) |
| Children | 3, including Hans Albert |
| Family | Einstein |
| Awards | See list • Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science (1920) Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Matteucci Medal (1921) ForMemRS (1921) 2 Copley Medal (1925) 2 Gold Medal of RAS (1926) 3 Max Planck Medal (1929) Membership of NAS (1942) 4 Time Person of the Century (1999) |
| Scientific career | … |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | See list • University of Bern (1908–1909) University of Zurich (1909–1911) Charles University in Prague (1911–1912) ETH Zurich (1912–1914) Prussian Academy of Sciences (1914–1933) Humboldt University of Berlin (1914–1933) Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (director, 1917–1933) German Physical Society (president, 1916–1918) Institute for Advanced Study (1933–1955) |
| Thesis | Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions) (1905) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
| Website | alberteinstein.com |
| Signature | … |
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Footnotes
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Until 1913, German citizenship was acquired through citizenship in a constituent state (whose requirements varied); from 1913, uniform citizenship requirements were set at the national level. Nevertheless, state citizenship remained in force until the Nazis came to power in 1933. ↩ ↩2 ↩3
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Whittaker, E. (1 November 1955). “Albert Einstein. 1879–1955”. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 37–67. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0005. JSTOR 769242. ↩ ↩2
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“The Gold Medal” (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021. ↩
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“Membership directory”. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021. ↩