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What is he known for?
He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". -
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Birth 1879 March 14 and death 1955 April 18
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Who is he?
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity. -
What did he teach?
He taught theoretical physics for one year (1908/09) at the University of Bern, for two years (1909-11) at the University of Zurich, and after one year at the Charles University in Prague he returned to his alma mater ETH Zurich between 1912 and 1914, before he left for Berlin, where he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. -
His death
On 17 April 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen in 1948. He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it.