The World As I See It

Albert Einstein was a renowned theoretical physicist and one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. He was born on March 14, 1879, in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, which revolutionized our understanding of space, time, and gravity. Einstein’s early years were marked by academic excellence and a deep curiosity about the natural world. He studied physics and mathematics at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, where he later obtained his doctorate in 1905 with a groundbreaking dissertation on the dimensions of molecules. This same year, often referred to as his “miracle year,” Einstein published four influential papers, including his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc^2, which describes the equivalence of mass and energy.