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By Walter Isaacson

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Dates

March 14, 1879 – April 16, 1955

Authorized Form of Name

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955

Abstract

Albert Einstein was a Nobel Prize winner and Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (1932-1955). Other institutional affiliations include the University of Berlin and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. His research interests included special and general relativity and unified theory.

Important Dates

March 14, 1879Birth, Ulm (Germany).

1896 – 1900Obtained Teaching Diploma, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zurich (Switzerland).

1902 – 1909Technical Expert, Third Class (1902-1906) and Technical Expert, Second Class (1906-1909), Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum (Switzerland), Swiss Patent Office, Bern, Bern (Switzerland).

1905Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland).

1908 – 1909Lecturer, University of Bern, Bern (Switzerland).

1909 – 1911Extraordinary Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland).

1911 – 1912Professor of Theoretical Physics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland).

1911 – 1912Professor of Theoretical Physics, German University in Prague (Univerzita Karlova).

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

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The definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. Now the basis of Genius, the ten-part National Geographic series on the life of Albert Einstein, starring the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Award­–winning actor Geoffrey Rush as Einstein.

How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how Einstein’s scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom. Einstein explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk—a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate—became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals.

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