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Albert Einstein in 1921 |
| Born | 14 March 1879
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
| Died | 18 April 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Residence | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Citizenship | - Württemberg/Germany (until 1896)
- Stateless (1896–1901)
- Switzerland (from 1901)
- Austria (1911–1912)
- Germany (1914–1933)
- United States (from 1940)
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| lma mater | - ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
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| Known for | - General relativity and special relativity
- Photoelectric effect
- Mass-energy equivalence
- Quantification of the Brownian motion
- Einstein field equations
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Unified Field Theory
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| Spouse | Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
Elsa Löwenthal, née Einstein, (1919–1936) |
| Awards | - Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
- Copley Medal (1925)
- Max Planck Medal (1929)
- Time Person of the Century (1999)
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