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He was born in Ulm (Germany)
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The family moved to Munich, where it would grow for fourteen years.
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He did not start talking until he was three years old.
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Since 1888 he attended the secondary school Luitpold, he got good grades in general, not so much in the language subjects, but excellent in the natural sciences.
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Acquire Swiss nationality.
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Enter as an official at the Federal Patent Office in Bern.
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He marries Mileva Maric, with whom he will have two children.
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He publishes his first articles in which he addresses the fields of Brownian movement, the photoelectric effect and special relativity.
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He obtains his first position of professor at the University of Zurich.
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He is appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics in Berlin.
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Publishes the General Theory of Relativity.
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Divorced from Mileva, he married Elsa, a cousin of his.
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Meet Leo Szilard, with whom to develop inventions such as a refrigerator and an electromagnetic pump without moving parts.
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Receives the Nobel Prize in physics.
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He leaves Germany and lives in exile in France, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the United States, a country where he is received with enthusiasm. He had been a professor of theoretical physics at the Institute of Higher Studies in Princeton.
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Letter to Roosevelt asking him to undertake a research program on the atomic bomb.
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Adopt the American nationality.
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He retires from teaching to be able to develop his theoretical investigations exclusively.
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He died in Princeton (USA).
