Albert Einstein Birth Anniversary: All you need to know about the father of Modern Physics

The brilliant physicist Albert Einstein's birthday, is commemorated every year on March 14. Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is largely regarded as one of the most important and accomplished scientists in history. For discovering the law of the photoelectric effect, Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.


Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, Germany. Einstein was a genius who taught himself algebra and Euclidean geometry by the age of 12. He developed the theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2, considered the world's most famous equation.


He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his services to theoretical physics and discovery of the law of photoelectric effect. Einstein published over 300 scientific papers and more than 150 non-scientific works in his lifetime. He also discovered his own original proof of the Pythagorean theorem when he was only 12 and mastered integral and differential calculus by the age of 14.


Einstein's family was of Ashkenazi Jewish origin, and his father, Hermann Einstein, was a salesman and engineer. The family moved to Munich in 1880. Einstein struggled with language and other subjects in school and left early. At 16, he wrote his first scholarly paper on the force of magnetism, inspired by a compass gifted to him by his father.


Einstein published his first paper, Conclusions from the Capillarity Phenomena, in 1900. In 1905, he published four groundbreaking papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy, which became known as Einstein's 'year of miracles.'


Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903, and they divorced in 1919, mainly due to the physicist's attraction to his cousin Elsa. Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal in 1919 following a five-year relationship. Einstein was interested in music and would have pursued a career in it if he had not become a physicist. He was also fascinated by Mahatma Gandhi, and the two exchanged letters throughout their lives.


On April 17, 1955, Einstein suffered from internal bleeding due to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and died the following morning at the age of 76.

FAQs

Q1: When and where was Albert Einstein born?
Germany's Ulm welcomed Albert Einstein on March 14, 1879.


Q2: What is Albert Einstein famous for?
Albert Einstein is famous for developing the theory of relativity and the mass-energy equivalence formula.