| Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein, 1921 |
| Born | 14 March 1879 (1879-03-14)
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
| Died | April 18, 1955 (1955-04-19) (aged 75)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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| 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 Zurich
German Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, Prague
ETH Zurich
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
University of Leiden
Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich
University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
| 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)
Person of the Century |
| Religious stance | See main text |
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