[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]March 14[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]1879[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman]([/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman]1879-03-14)[/FONT]
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[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Ulm[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrttemberg"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Württemberg[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Germany[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][LEFT]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Died[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]April 18[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]1955[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (aged 76)[/FONT]
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[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton%2C_New_Jersey"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Princeton[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]New Jersey[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]U.S.[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][LEFT]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Residence[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Germany[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Italy[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Switzerland[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman], [/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]United States[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Citizenship[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]German[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (1879–96, 1914–33)[/FONT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Swiss[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (1901–55)[/FONT][/LEFT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]American[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (1940–55)[/FONT][LEFT]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Ethnicity[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jew"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Ashkenazi Jewish[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Fields[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Physicist[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Institutions[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Swiss[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Office"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Patent Office[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] ([/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Berne[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman])[/FONT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zurich"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Univ. of Zurich[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_University_in_Prague"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Charles Univ.[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Academy_of_Sciences"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Prussian Acad. of Sciences[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser_Wilhelm_Institute"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Kaiser Wilhelm Inst.[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Univ. of Leiden[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][/LEFT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Advanced_Study"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Inst. for Advanced Study[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][LEFT]
[B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_mater"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Alma mater[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]ETH Zurich[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
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[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Zurich"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]University of Zurich[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (doctorate)[/FONT][LEFT]
[B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctorate"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Doctoral[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] advisor[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kleiner"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Alfred Kleiner[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Known for[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]General relativity[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Special relativity[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Brownian motion[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Photoelectric effect[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass-energy_*****alence"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Mass-energy *****alence[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Einstein field equations[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_unified_field_theories"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Unified Field Theory[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_statistics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Bose–Einstein statistics[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][/LEFT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]EPR paradox[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][LEFT]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Notable awards[/FONT][/B]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copley_Medal"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Copley Medal[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (1925)[/FONT][/LEFT]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck_Medal"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]Max Planck Medal[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman] (1929)[/FONT][LEFT]
[B][FONT=Times New Roman]Signature[/FONT][/B]
[SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Albert Einstein ([/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_********"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]German[/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman]: [/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman]IPA[SIZE=3]: [/SIZE][FONT=inherit][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA"][SIZE=3][COLOR=windowtext][[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]ˈalb[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɐ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]t [/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]ˈ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]a[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɪ̯[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]n[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ʃ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]ta[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɪ̯[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]n][/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/FONT][URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/Albert_Einstein_german.ogg"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3](Audio file)[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL]([URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help"][COLOR=windowtext]help[/COLOR][/URL]·[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Albert_Einstein_german.ogg"][COLOR=windowtext]info[/COLOR][/URL])[SIZE=3]; [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_********"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]English[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3]: [/SIZE]IPA[SIZE=3]: [/SIZE][FONT=inherit][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Pronunciation"][SIZE=3][COLOR=windowtext]/[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]ˈælb[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɝ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]t [/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman]ˈ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]a[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɪ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]nsta[/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Lucida Sans Unicode]ɪ[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=windowtext]n/[/COLOR][/SIZE][/URL][/FONT][SIZE=3]) ([/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]March 14[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1879"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]1879[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3] – [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_18"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]April 18[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]1955[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3]) was a [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]German[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3]-born [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]theoretical physicist[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3]. He is best known for his [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]theory of relativity[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3] and specifically [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%E2%80%93energy_*****alence"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]mass–energy *****alence[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3], [I]E[/I] = [I]mc[/I]2. Einstein received the 1921 [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]Nobel Prize in Physics[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3] "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the [/SIZE][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect"][COLOR=windowtext][SIZE=3]photoelectric effect[/SIZE][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3]."[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#cite_note-0#cite_note-0"][COLOR=windowtext][1][/COLOR][/URL][/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Einstein's many contributions to [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]physics[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] include his [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_theory_of_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]special theory of relativity[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], which reconciled [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]mechanics[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] with [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetism"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]electromagnetism[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], and his [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_theory_of_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]general theory of relativity[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], which extended the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_relativity"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]principle of relativity[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] to non-uniform motion, creating a new theory of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]gravitation[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]. His other contributions include [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_cosmology"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]relativistic cosmology[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]capillary action[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_opalescence"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]critical opalescence[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_physics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]classical problems[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_mechanics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]statistical mechanics[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] and their application to [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]quantum theory[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], an explanation of the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Brownian movement[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]molecules[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_rule"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]atomic transition[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]probabilities[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], the quantum theory of a [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monatomic_gas"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]monatomic gas[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]thermal[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] properties of [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]light[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] with low [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]radiation[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] density (which laid the foundation for the [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]photon[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] theory), a theory of radiation including [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulated_emission"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]stimulated emission[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3], the conception of a [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_unified_field_theories"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]unified field theory[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman], and the geometrization of physics.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_by_Albert_Einstein"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Works by Albert Einstein[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] include more than fifty scientific papers and also non-scientific books.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#cite_note-1#cite_note-1"][COLOR=windowtext][2][/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#cite_note-2#cite_note-2"][COLOR=windowtext][3][/COLOR][/URL] Einstein is revered by the physics community,[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#cite_note-3#cite_note-3"][COLOR=windowtext][4][/COLOR][/URL] and in 1999 [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_%28magazine%29"][I][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Time[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] magazine named him the "[/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_the_Century"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Person of the Century[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]". In wider culture the name "Einstein" has become synonymous with [/SIZE][/FONT][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius"][COLOR=windowtext][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]genius[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman].[/FONT][/SIZE]