Albert Einstein
(
–
)
1879
1955
University of Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics
;
Berlin, Germany
Physicist; Educator; Peace activist
Elected
1924
International Honorary Member
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.
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