Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879 into a wealthy family. His mother introduced him to the arts and his father, who ran a mill electrochemistry, it communicates early taste for science. His family moved to Switzerland and it is at the Polytechnic in Zurich he continued his studies. He met Mileva Maric, who is also a student, whom he married in 1903.
In 1905, he published three seminal articles: Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and the theory of relativity. It will then professor at several universities in Europe.
He continued his research in 1915 to lead to the theory of general relativity. He received the Nobel Prize in 1921.
The coming to power of Hitler in 1933 led him to immigrate to the United States because it is threatened and denied the Nazi militarism. It will go to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In 1941, fearing that Hitler makes first atomic bomb (which became possible thanks to its theories), he wrote a letter to the U.S. president to prevent this risk. Very opposed to the use of the bomb, it will be a very active militant pacifist dream of a world government.
He died in Princeton April 18, 1955, at the age of 76 years.