Albert Einstein
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1921for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect
- Citizenship
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Kingdom of Württemberg 
statelessness 
Switzerland 
Cisleithania 
Weimar Republic 
Germany 
United States - Languages
- English, German
- date of birth
- 3/14/1879
- place of birth
- Ulm
- date of death
- 4/18/1955
- place of death
- Princeton
- Lived
- 76 years
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- educated at
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- University of Zurich
- doctoral advisor: Heinrich Burkhardt
- academic major: physics
- doctoral advisor: Alfred Kleiner
- academic degree: doctorate
- academic thesis: A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions
- end time: 4/30/1905
- Old Kantonsschule (Albert Einstein House)
- academic degree: matura
- end time: September 1896
- start time: 1895
- ETH Zurich
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- academic major: mathematics education
- start time: 1896
- end time: 1900
- Luitpold-Gymnasium
- start time: 1888
- end time: 1894
- University of Zurich
- occupation
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- patent examiner
- start time: 1901
- end time: 1906
- university teacher
- start time: 1909
- professor
- pedagogue
- philosopher
- pacifist
- philosopher of science
- theoretical physicist
- writer
- mathematician
- inventor
- physicist
- science writer
- scientist
- patent examiner
- employer
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- Princeton University
- end time: 1955
- start time: 1933
- Leiden University
- end time: 7/13/1946
- start time: 9/21/1920
- Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
- start time: 6/16/1902
- end time: 1909
- Kaiser Wilhelm Society
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1917
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1914
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1914
- ETH Zurich
- start time: October 1912
- end time: 1914
- University of Bern
- end time: 1909
- start time: 1908
- German University in Prague
- start time: January 1911
- end time: October 1912
- University of Zurich
- start time: 1909
- end time: 1911
- Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- start time: 1916
- end time: 1918
- Leiden University
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Charles University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Bern
- Princeton University
- member of
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- Japan Academy
- start time: 2/13/1950
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- start time: 1932
- Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1923
- French Academy of Sciences
- start time: 6/26/1933
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- end time: 1933
- start time: 1927
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1942
- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 5/19/1920
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- start time: 9/29/1921
- Royal Society of London
- start time: 5/5/1921
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- start time: 12/2/1922
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 1924
- Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL
- start time: 1925
- American Philosophical Society
- start time: 1930
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Centre international de synthèse
- Indian National Science Academy
- Japan Academy
- work location
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- Bern
- start time: 6/16/1902
- end time: 1909
- Berlin
- end time: 1933
- start time: April 1914
- Prague
- end time: October 1912
- start time: January 1911
- Zurich
- end time: 1914
- start time: October 1912
- Zurich
- end time: 1911
- start time: 1909
- Caputh
- Princeton
- Bern
- position held
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- professor
- start time: 1911
- professor
- notable work
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- photoelectric effect
- stimulated emission
- quantum mechanics
- general relativity
- mass–energy equivalence
- theory of relativity
- unified field theory
- Planck constant
- special relativity
- theory of Brownian Motion
- Einstein field equations
- field of work
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- theoretical physics
- doctoral student
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- Leó Szilárd