Albert Einstein

Modern Physicist

●Proposed Light quantum hypothesis and solved the problem of photoelectric effect

●Founded special theory of relativity, general theory of relativity, etc.

●Won the Nobel Prize in Physics

●Participate in the anti-war peace movement

●He was voted as the “Person of the Century” by Time Magazine

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879, modern physicist

He was born into a Jewish family (both Jewish parents) in Ulm, Germany. He graduated from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich in 1900 and became a Swiss citizen. In 1905, Einstein received a doctorate in physics from the ETH Zurich, and put forward the Light quantum hypothesis and successfully explained the photoelectric effect (hence won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921). In the same year, he founded the special theory of relativity, and the general theory of relativity in 1915. In 1933, he moved to the United States and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1940, he joined the United States and retained his Swiss nationality. Einstein died on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA at the age of 76

In December 1999, Einstein was voted as the "Person of the Century" by Time Magazine. 

Einstein's theory laid a theoretical foundation for the development of nuclear energy. In order to help fight against the Nazis, he once wrote a letter to US President Franklin Roosevelt with the assistance of Leo Szilard and others, which directly contributed to the launch of the Manhattan Project; after World War II, he actively advocated peace, opposed the use of nuclear weapons, and signed the Russell-Einstein Declaration. Einstein created a new era of modern science and technology, and is recognized as the greatest physicist after Galileo and Newton, It is also the epitome and promoter of the critical school of philosophy of science.

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