Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in 20th-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history of...

Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in twentieth-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history...

Albert Einstein ranks as one of the most remarkable theoreticians in the history of science. During a single year, 1905, he produced three papers that are among the most important in twentieth-century physics, and perhaps in all of the recorded history...

The German-born American physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955) revolutionized the science of physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity. In the history of the exact sciences, only a handful of men--men like Nicolaus Copernicus and Isaac...

Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. His father was an engineer who opened an electrical business in Munich. When the business failed in 1894, the Einsteins moved to Milan, Italy. Albert was left behind to finish his schooling in...