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WESTERLY — When electrical engineer Hermann Einstein and his wife, Pauline Koch, welcomed a son into the world in 1879, they probably didn’t have an inkling that one day the
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect in the year 1921.
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on this day in history, March 14, 1879. He was just 26 years old when he proposed his groundbreaking theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. (Read Einstein’s 1926 Britannica essay on space-time.) Einstein’s parents were secular, middle-class Jews. His father, Hermann Einstein, was originally a featherbed salesman and later ran an electrochemical factory with moderate success. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. He had one sister,