Albert Einstein Gold

Born

1879-03-14, Ulm

Died

1955-04-18, Princeton

Citizenship

Switzerland, Germany, United States

Occupations

theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, inventor, science writer, pedagogue, university teacher, physicist, philosopher, writer, scientist, mathematician, patent examiner

Fields

theoretical physics

Political party

German Democratic Party

Member of

Royal Society of London, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, American Philosophical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences

Work

• Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property 1902 to 1909
• Charles University
• University of Zurich 1909 to 1911
• German University in Prague 1911 to 1912
• ETH Zurich 1912 to 1914
• Kaiser Wilhelm Society 1917 to 1933
• Princeton University 1933 to 1955
• Leiden University
• University of Bern 1908 to 1909
• Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft 1916 to 1918
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 1914 to 1933
• Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences 1914 to 1933
• Institute for Advanced Study
• Leiden University 1920 to 1946
• Bern
• University of California, Berkeley

Education

• Bachelor of ScienceETH Zurich 1896 to 1900
• Luitpold-Gymnasium 1888 to 1894
• maturaOld Kantonsschule (Albert Einstein House) 1895 to 1896
• doctorateUniversity of Zurich 1905

• professor1911 to now

• Barnard Medal for Meritorious Service to Science 1920
• Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1926
• Prix Jules Janssen 1931
• Matteucci Medal 1921
• Max Planck Medal 1929
• Franklin Medal 1935
• Copley Medal 1925
• Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order 1923
• Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship 1934
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva
• honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1949
• honorary doctorate from Princeton University
• honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense 1923
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society 1921
• Great Immigrants Award 2009
• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
• doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris 1928
• New Jersey Hall of Fame 2008
• honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 1921

Notable work

• special relativity
• general relativity
• photoelectric effect
• theory of relativity
• theory of Brownian Motion
• mass–energy equivalence
• Planck constant
• Einstein field equations
• quantum mechanics
• unified field theory
• stimulated emission

Only relatives who are public figures themselves.

• Mileva MarićSpouse
• Elsa EinsteinSpouse
• Hans Albert EinsteinChild
• Eduard EinsteinChild
• Lieserl (Einstein)Child
• Hermann EinsteinFather
• Pauline KochMother
• Maja EinsteinSibling
• Elsa EinsteinRelative

Languages

English, German

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