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Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass–energy equivalence. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect."

In 1999, Albert Einstein was named "Person of the Century" by Time magazine, a Gallup poll recorded him as the fourth most admired person of the 20th century and according to The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, Einstein is "the greatest scientist of the twentieth century and one of the supreme intellects of all time."

A partial list of his memorials:

    * The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the "World Year of Physics" in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Annus Mirabilis Papers.

    * The Albert Einstein Institute

    * The Albert Einstein Memorial by Robert Berks

    * A unit used in photochemistry, the einstein

    * The chemical element 99, einsteinium

    * The asteroid 2001 Einstein

    * The Albert Einstein Award

    * The Albert Einstein Peace Prize

In 1990, his name was added to the Walhalla temple.

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg, now the German state of Baden-Württemberg. He was a student of a Catholic elementary school where he fared well. He exhibited a natural talent for mathematics, which led him to build mechanical devices and models. He is believed to have faced difficulties with speech during childhood.

At the early age of five, a pocket compass inspired Einstein. On observing the pocket compass brought by his father, Einstein realized that it pointed in the same direction, whichever way it was turned. This made him think of the existence of a force that causes the compass to point in the same direction

In 1903, Albert Einstein married to Mileva Maric, a teacher from Titel, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Serbia. She is believed to have made significant contributions to Einstein’s works. They divorced in 1919. Einstein is said to have married his cousin Elsa Lowenthal, after ending his relationship with Mileva.

While working in the patent office during 1905, Albert Einstein published some of his important works in a German physics journal called Annalen der Physik. He put forth the idea of the particulate nature of light. It was during the same period of time that he published a paper, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Objects. The same year, in his paper on the equivalence of mass and energy, he proposed that mass can be converted into an equivalent amount of energy based on the equation, E=mc2. These accomplishments of his are regarded as some of the greatest works in science. You might want to look at the other major accomplishments of Albert Einstein.

In his paper on Critical Opalescence, written in 1910, Einstein discussed the effect of light scattered by different molecules in the atmosphere. In his 1909 paper, he introduced the concept of photons by suggesting that energy quanta have defined momentums and are point-like particles. In 1911, when he was a professor at the Charles University of Prague, Einstein published his work on the effects of gravity on light. A solar eclipse that occurred a few years later, proved his proposition that light bends in the vicinity of a massive stellar object like the Sun. In 1915, Einstein came up with the Theory of Relativity, which is in use till date.