Albert Einstein

The patent clerk who rewrote space and time, and the century's symbol of science.

Core Principles & Analysis

• His 1905 papers delivered special relativity and the light-quantum, earning the 1921 Nobel Prize.
• General relativity of 1915 bent gravity into geometry, confirmed by the 1919 eclipse.
• Signed the 1939 letter to Roosevelt that set the atomic age in motion.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1879 – 1955