Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, and grew up in Munich and northern Italy. After graduating from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich, he worked as a patent clerk in Bern, where in 1905—his "miracle year"—he published four papers that revolutionized physics, including his theory of special relativity and the photoelectric effect. His general theory of relativity, completed in 1915, redefined gravity and became one of the two pillars of modern physics. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his work on the photoelectric effect. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Relativity.