Albert Einstein

By NWagoner

  • Born

    Born in Ulm, Germany

  • Switzerland

    He went to study in Switzerland.

  • Renounced citizenship

    He renounced his German citizenship when he was only 16 years old

  • E=mc2

    Best known for his mass/energy equivalence formula

  • General Theory of Relativity

    Allowed the world to have a better understanding of the interaction of space, time and gravity.

  • Nobel Prize

    After returning to Germany, he won the Noble Prize for physics.

  • USA

    Emigrated to the US and began working in Princeton, New Jersey

  • F.D.R

    He wrote a letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt urging him consider creating an atomic bomb.

  • Naturalized

    He became a US citizen

  • Died

    Albert Einstein dies at age 76 in Princeton, New Jersey