Author motto: Albert Einstein (Albert Einstein, 1879 Nian 3 14 - 18 April 1955), born in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Germany Ulm City, graduated from the ETH Zurich, Jewish physicist. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879 a Jewish family (both parents are Jewish), graduated from the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology in 1900, into the Swiss nationality. In 1905, received his Ph.D. University of Zurich, Einstein's photon hypothesis, successfully explained the photoelectric effect, thus obtaining a 1921 Nobel Prize in physics in 1905 the creation of special relativity. Founded in 1915 general theory of relativity. April 18, 1955 died at the age of 76 years. Einstein laid the theoretical foundation for the development of nuclear energy, creating a new era of modern science and technology, is recognized as the second since Galileo, Newton's greatest physicists. December 26, 1999, Einstein was the US "Time Magazine" named "Man of the Century."