who was Albert Einstein?
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Albert Einstein was born on 14th March 1879 in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire and passed away on 18th April 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. He was a German-born scientist. He worked on theoretical physics. He developed the theory of relativity. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for theoretical physics.
He was also known for:
- General relativity
- Special relativity
- Photoelectric effect
- E=mc2 (Mass–energy equivalence)
- E=hf (Planck–Einstein relation)
- Theory of Brownian motion
- Einstein field equations
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Bose–Einstein condensate
- Gravitational wave
- Cosmological constant
- Unified field theory
- EPR paradox
- Ensemble interpretation
His Spouse(s) were:
1. Mileva Marić
They married in 1903 and got divorced due to some reasons in 1919.
2. Elsa Löwenthal
She was actually Albert Einstein’s Cousin and she had the surname of Einstein at birth, lost it when she took the name of her first husband Max Löwenthal, and regained it in 1919 when she married her cousin Albert but unfortunately she(Elsa Löwenthal) died on 20th Dec 1936.
Awards He Won:
- Barnard Medal (1920)
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
- Matteucci Medal (1921)
- ForMemRS (1921)
- Copley Medal (1925)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1926)
- Max Planck Medal (1929)
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1942)
- Time Person of the Century (1999)
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