Albert einsteins

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein's father and his uncle Jakob founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured electrical equipment. The family was Jewish, but did not practice Judaism.

In 1894, Hermann Einstein and his wife moved to Italy, where he worked as a technical director of the company's branch in Milan. They separated in 1895 and divorced in 1901. Einstein remained in Italy, where he renounced his German citizenship and became a stateless person. In 1902, he married Mileva Marić, a Serbian mathematician. The couple had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. They divorced in 1919.

In 1905, Einstein published a paper that proposed the special theory of relativity. In 1911, he published the theory of general relativity. During World War I, he was a member of the pacifist committee International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the theory of relativity. In 1922, he became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1933, Einstein moved to the United States to become a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. He became a naturalized citizen in 1940. He served on the board of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, which lobbied for the development of the atomic bomb. He also spoke out against the use of the atomic bomb in Japan.

Einstein died on 18 April 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.