14 March 1879 Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire

18 April 1955 (aged 76) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.

General relativity, Special relativity, Photoelectric effect, E=mc2 (Mass–energy equivalence), E=hf (Planck–Einstein relation), Theory of Brownian motion, Einstein field equations, Bose–Einstein statistics, Bose–Einstein condensate, Gravitational wave, Cosmological constant, Unified field theory, EPR paradox

Physics, philosophy

Barnard Medal (1920), Nobel Prize in Physics (1921), Matteucci Medal (1921), ForMemRS (1921)[3], Copley Medal (1925)[3], Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1926)[4], Max Planck Medal (1929), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1942)[5], Time Person of the Century (1999)

Swiss Patent Office (Bern) (1902–1909), University of Bern (1908–1909), University of Zurich (1909–1911), Charles University in Prague (1911–1912), ETH Zurich (1912–1914), Prussian Academy of Sciences (1914–1933), Humboldt University of Berlin (1914–1933), Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (director, 1917–1933), German Physical Society (president, 1916–1918), Leiden University (visits, 1920), Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (1933–1955), California Institute of Technology (visits, 1931–1933), University of Oxford (visits, 1931–1933)

Switzerland

Kingdom of Württemberg, part of the German Empire (1879–1896)[note 1], Stateless (1896–1901), Switzerland (1901–1955), Austria, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1911–1912), Kingdom of Prussia, part of the German Empire (1914–1918)[note 1], Free State of Prussia (Weimar Republic, 1918–1933), United States (1940–1955)

Alfred Kleiner

Federal polytechnic school in Zurich (Federal teaching diploma, 1900), University of Zurich (PhD, 1905)

1800+

Virtually all modern physicists

Arthur Schopenhauer, Baruch Spinoza, Bernhard Riemann, David Hume, Ernst Mach, Hendrik Lorentz, Hermann Minkowski, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michele Besso, Moritz Schlick, Thomas Young, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Heinrich Friedrich Weber

Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen (A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions) (1905)