Albert Einstein German-born American physicist Birth March 14, 1879 Death April 18, 1955 Place of Birth Ulm, Germany Known for Proposing the theory of relativity, a physical theory of gravity, space, and time Explaining the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion Career 1905 Published papers on special relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect 1909-1911 Taught physics at the University of Zürich 1911-1912 Taught physics at the German-speaking university in Prague 1912-1914 Returned to teach at the University of Zürich 1914 Became a professor at the University of Berlin and director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics 1916 Published a paper on general relativity, extending his earlier theory of special relativity 1919 A solar eclipse confirmed Einsteins prediction that starlight bends in the vicinity of a massive body such as the sun. 1921 Won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect 1933 Began teaching at Princeton University 1939 Pointed out, in a letter to President Roosevelt, the possibility that an extremely powerful bomb might be constructed using atomic chain reactions in uranium, and suggested that the Germans might be working on such a bomb
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