Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)
Einstein was a German-born physicist widely held to be one of the greatest and most influential scientists of all time.
Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important new contributions to quantum mechanics, and so was a central figure in the revolutionary reshaping of some of the scientific understanding of nature created by Newton.
His famous formula E = mc2, which comes from relativity theory, has been called “the world’s most famous equation”.
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics ”for his services to theoretical physics. In a 1999 poll of 130 leading physicists worldwide by the British journal Physics World, Einstein was ranked the greatest physicist of all time. His intellectual achievements and uniqueness have made the word Einstein mean almost the same as the word genius.