He wask born in Ulm, Germany on march/14/1879 and he
death in Princeton, United States on april/18/1955. He was a German physicist of Jewish origin, he is considered the most known and popular scientist of the twentieth century. In 1915, he presented the theory of general relativity, wich completely reformulated the concept of gravity. One result was the emergence of the scientist study of the origin and evolution of the universe by the branch of physics called cosmology. In 1919, when the british observation about a solar eclipse confirmed his predictions about curvature of light, he was idolized by the press. Einstein became a popular icon of the world famous science, a privilege available for very few scientists.