Albert Einstein is born in Ulm
His early life begins in Germany.
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Albert Einstein
Trace Einstein’s education, public scientific work and continuing experimental legacy.
Subject guide · scope, chapters & sources ↗A selective public biography. Scientific theories are presented as tested models, not infallible answers; the final chapter is a later test by other researchers.
A teaching diploma in Zurich
Einstein completes his studies at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic.
Light is described in discrete packets
A paper proposes a quantum account of light.
Relativity links space, time and energy
Einstein publishes work on moving bodies and mass–energy equivalence.
A new theory of gravity
Einstein completes general relativity.
Starlight offers a test
Eclipse observations provide evidence for general relativity.
Recognition with the 1921 Nobel Prize
Einstein receives the Physics prize awarded for 1921.
A new research home in Princeton
Einstein joins the Institute for Advanced Study.
A warning about nuclear weapons
Einstein signs a letter addressed to President Roosevelt.
Einstein’s life ends in Princeton
He dies after a career that reshaped physics.
A prediction meets a new experiment
LIGO detects gravitational waves from merging black holes.