-Birth: March 14, 1879
-Birth Place: Ulm, Kingdom of Wurttemberg in Germany
-Religion/Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
-Field: Physics
-Schooling and College years: Attended the Catholic Elementary School in Munich, in his teens he attended the Luitpold Gymnasium. Graduated from the Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland in 1900 with a diploma in physics and mathematics.
-Key Achievements: Special relativity, General relativity, Photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, Bose-Einstein Statistics.
-Notable Honors: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded in 1921, The Copley medal in 1925 for his contributions to quantum theory and for his theory of relativity, the Max Planck medal in 1929 for his achievements in Physics.
-Death: 18 April, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
-Albert Einstein’s popular phrase “The important thing is to not stop questioning” reflected his never-ending questioning attitude and curiosity
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