History of Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879.

In 1900, Einstein passed the exams in Maths and Physics and was awarded the Federal Polytechnic teaching diploma.

Einstein and Marić married in January 1903.

In 1900, Einstein's paper "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen" ("Conclusions from the Capillarity Phenomena") was published in the journal Annalen der Physik. On 30 April 1905, Einstein completed his thesis, with Alfred Kleiner, Professor of Experimental Physics, serving as pro-forma advisor. As a result, Einstein was awarded a PhD by the University of Zürich, with his dissertation A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions.

By 1908, he was recognized as a leading scientist and was appointed lecturer at the University of Bern.

On 3 July 1913, he was voted for membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Max Planck and Walther Nernst visited him the next week in Zurich to persuade him to join the academy, additionally offering him the post of director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, which was soon to be established. He was officially elected to the academy on 24 July.

Einstein visited New York City for the first time on 2 April 1921, where he received an official welcome by Mayor John Francis Hylan, followed by three weeks of lectures and receptions.

Einstein won Nobel Prize in physics, November 9, 1922

Einstein became an American citizen in 1940.

Einstein died in Princeton Hospital early the next morning at the age of 76, having continued to work until near the end.