Albert Einstein was a theoretical physicist and philosopher of science

who developed the theory of relativity. He is considered the most

influential physicist of the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize in 1921
for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
He was born in 1879 in Germany and he spent his childhood in
Munich, where his father

founded a company that manufactured

electrical equipment. After the school, he studied mathematics and

physics at the Institute of Technology in Zurich.
In 1905, he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich. In the
same year he published scientific paper with his special theory of
relativity and in 1916 he published his theory of general relativity.
Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of
the law of the photoelectric effect. In 1933, the year the Nazis took
power in Germany, Einstein emigrated to America. He accepted a
position at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. Einstein retired
from the institute in 1945 and he died on 18 April 1955 in Princeton,
New Jersey.