Albert Einstein (1879.3.14-1955.4.18) was a Jewish physicist. He was born in 1879 in a Jewish family in Ulm, Germany (both parents were Jewish). He graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1900 and became a Swiss citizen. In 1905, after receiving a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Zurich, Einstein proposed the photon hypothesis and successfully explained the photoelectric effect. As a result, he won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics and founded the special theory of relativity. Founded the general theory of relativity in 1915.
Einstein laid the theoretical foundation for the development of nuclear energy and ushered in a new era of modern science and technology. He is recognized as the greatest physicist since Galileo and Newton. On December 26, 1999, Einstein was selected as the "Great Man of the Century" by Time Magazine.
