| Albert Einstein | |
 Albert Einstein, 1921 | |
| Born | 14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
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| Died | 18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Residence | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA |
| Citizenship | Württemberg/Germany (1879–96) Switzerland (1901–55) Austria (1911–12) Germany (1914–33) United States (1940–55) |
| Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jewish |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Swiss Patent Office (Berne) University of Zurich German Karl-Ferdinands- Universität, Prague ETH Zurich Prussian Academy of Sciences Kaiser Wilhelm Institute University of Leiden Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich University of Zurich |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
| Notable students | Ernst G. Straus Nathan Rosen |
| Known for | General relativity Special relativity Photoelectric effect Brownian motion Mass-energy equivalence Einstein field equations Unified Field Theory Bose–Einstein statistics |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Copley Medal (1925) Max Planck Medal (1929) Person of the Century |
| Religious stance | See main text |
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