Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in Ulm. A German-born theoretical physicist, Einstein revolutionised the understanding of space, time and gravity. In 1905, while working at the Swiss patent office, he published papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion and special relativity, including the equivalence of mass and energy. His general theory of relativity of 1915 described gravity as the curvature of spacetime and was confirmed by observations of a solar eclipse in 1919. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. As a Jew he left Germany after the Nazis took power and settled at Princeton in the United States, where he supported pacifist and civil-rights causes.
Before and after
- 1879Altamira cave paintings are discovered
- from 11 January 1879 to 4 July 1879Anglo-Zulu War
- from 22 January 1879 to 23 January 1879Battle of Rorke's Drift
- 23 February 1879Birth of Kazimir Malevich
- 14 March 1879Birth of Albert Einstein
- from 5 April 1879 to 4 April 1884War of the Pacific
- 26 April 1879Birth of Owen Willans Richardson
- from August 1879 to October 1880Victorio's War
- 9 October 1879Birth of Max von Laue
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