How old is Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein is one of the most influential and famous physicists of the 20th century, who discovered a number of important phenomena and proposed some fundamental theories. He was born in 1879 in a Jewish family of an engineer. He grew up in Munich and in his childhood, Albert used to demonstrate excellence in physics and math. He became a graduate of Swiss Federal Polytechnic and completed his Ph.D. in the University of Zurich. Developing a special theory of relativity was one of the earliest works of Einstein, and he wrote a large number of papers on general relativity. He continued to work and came up with a famous mass-energy equivalence. For his developments in theoretical physics, in 1921 Einstein received the Noble Prize (namely, for discovering photoelectric effects, which became one of the crucial parts of quantum mechanics progress). He was also the one to propose the photon theory of light. Most of his life, Einstein worked and lived in Switzerland, but with the raise of Hitler empire, he decided to immigrate to the US. During and after the World War II, Einstein studied various issues related to explosives and nuclear fission. In the US he became an activist and a scientist who used to point on various kinds of danger related to the use of nuclear weapons. He studied Brownian motion, cosmological constant, EPR paradox, and many other theories. Albert Einstein is one of the most honored and productive scientists of all times, and his contribution to the modern world of physics is extremely valuable.

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