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Albert Einstein is born.
Albert is born in Ulm, Germany. A year later, the Einstein family moved to Munich. -
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Albert Einstein's life!
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Einstein takes an entrance examinations into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich.
Albert passed the mathematics and physics sections with exceptional grades, but failed in the general knowledge part. -
Einstein publishes the Annus Mirabilis papers.
The Annus Mirabilis papers are four articles about the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, the theory of relativity, and the energy-mass equivalence E = mc2. -
Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Albert receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. -
The Einstein refrigerator is invented.
Albert and his former student Leo Szilard co-invent the Einstein refrigerator, which has no moving parts and only requires a heat source to operate. -
Einstein becomes a U.S. citizen.
At the time, it was the beginnning of World War II. Einstein, though a German, was on the side of the Allies. He moved to America for several other reasons. First, the German government passed a law preventing Jews to obtain any official positions. Second, the Nazi book burnings occured, and Einstein's works were also burnt. Third, he was on the list of assassination targets, with a $5,000 reward on his head. -
Albert wrote an article on his famous unified field theory.
Albert attempts to generalize his geometric theory of gravitation to include electromagnetism. However, most scientists ignored his work. -
Albert Einstein dies.
Albert Einstein, age 76, dies at Princeton Hospital. Seven hours later, Dr. Harvey stole his brain to study it and see if the extraordinary mental capabilities resulted from an irregular brain.
