Albert Einstein was an exceptional scientist but also a highly unconventional thinker whose life defied academic norms. In ...

Einstein had a birthday, of course. It was March 14, 1879. He was born in the small city of Ulm, Germany. What was his family like? Albert's dad, Hermann, worked with electrical equipment.

Like Max Planck, Albert Einstein first studied mathematics because he was told that everything interesting in physics had already been discovered. But in 1905, Einstein, a young cleark at the ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein ... the 51-year-old Einstein delighted in the telescope's instruments. Like a child at play, he scrambled about the framework ...

Little is known about the circumstances that led the teenage Albert ... Einstein was required to take two hours of religion classes per week along with other Jewish students, an obligation he ...

The secondary school he attended was eventually named after him and called the Albert Einstein Gymnasium before ... After that, the young genius was hooked and would play the violin in string ...