Albert Einstein, 1921 | |
| Born | 14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
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| Died | April 18, 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Residence | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA |
| Citizenship | Württemberg/Germany (1879–96) Switzerland (1901–55) Austria (1911–12) Germany (1914–33) United States (1940–55) |
| Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jewish |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Swiss Patent Office (Berne) University of Zurich German Karl-Ferdinands-Universität, Prague ETH Zurich Prussian Academy of Sciences Kaiser Wilhelm Institute University of Leiden Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
| Notable students | Ernst G. Straus Nathan Rosen |
| Known for | General relativity Special relativity Photoelectric effect Brownian motion Mass-energy equivalence Einstein field equations Unified Field Theory Bose–Einstein statistics |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Copley Medal (1925) Max Planck Medal (1929) Person of the Century |
In 1922 Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". This refers to his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect: "On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light", which was well supported by the experimental evidence by that time
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