The year 1905 was also when Einstein wrote a series of papers that changed our view of the universe forever. On the surface, he seemed to have been leading a pleasant, quiet life until then.

His parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. Einstein exchanged nuptials with Mileva Marić in January 1903, a year after welcoming their first child, Lieserl. Their son Hans was born in ...

Einstein had a birthday, of course. It was March 14, 1879. He was born in the small city of Ulm, Germany. What was his family like? Albert's dad, Hermann, worked with electrical equipment.

Many attempts were made during the 20th century, including by Hermann Weyl. Einstein's aim was to explain electromagnetism as a geometric property of four-dimensional spacetime. He continued this ...

Albert Einstein was an exceptional scientist but also a highly unconventional thinker whose life defied academic norms. In 1905, at just 26 years old, while working at the Swiss Patent Office, ...

Just one year after the birth of little Albert, the family moved to Munich, where Einstein’s father Hermann set up an ...