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Parents
His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. -
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Birth
He was born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire -
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Education
He went to Federal polytechnic school -
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Carrer
He was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics -
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Marriage
His first wife was Mileva Maric
And his second wife was Elsa Einstein -
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Travels abroad
Einstein visited New York City for the first time on 2 April 1921, where he received an official welcome by Mayor John Francis Hylan, followed by three weeks of lectures and receptions. -
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Love of music
Einstein developed an appreciation for music at an early age. In his late journals he wrote: "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music... I get most joy in life out of music." -
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World War II and the Manhattan Project
In 1939, a group of Hungarian scientists that included émigré physicist Leó Szilárd attempted to alert Washington to ongoing Nazi atomic bomb research. -
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Death
On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen in 1948. He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it. -
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Immigration to the US
In February 1933, while on a visit to the United States, Einstein knew he could not return to Germany with the rise to power of the Nazis under Germany's new chancellor, Adolf Hitler.