Albert Einstein Biography
| Born | March 14, 1879 Ulm, Württemberg, Germany |
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| Died | April 18, 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| Residence | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, USA |
| Citizenship | German (1879–96, 1914–33) Swiss (1901–55) American (1940–55) |
| Ethnicity | Ashkenazi Jewish |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Swiss Patent Office (Berne) University of Zurich Charles University, Prague 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 |
| Known for | General relativity Special relativity Brownian motion Photoelectric effect Mass-energy equivalence Einstein field equations Unified Field Theory Bose–Einstein statistics EPR paradox |
| Influences | Marcel Grossmann |
| Influenced | David Bohm |
| Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1921) Copley Medal (1925) Max Planck Medal (1929) |
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