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He was born in Ulm, Germany.
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He began his higher studies at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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He enters 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 published his first articles in which he addresses the fields of Brownian motion, 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 marries Elsa, a cousin of his.
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Meet Leo Szilard, with whom he develops 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. There he will be professor of theoretical physics at the Institute of Higher Studies of Princeton.
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Letter to Roosevelt asking him to undertake a research program on the atomic bomb.
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He retires from teaching to be able to develop his theoretical investigations exclusively.
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Dies in Princeton (USA).
