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Albert Einstein was born in March 1879 to a Jewish family -
His mother, who played various musical instruments, inspired Einstein's musical passion. His uncle Jakob Einstein, an engineer, who gave him science books to read. -
He reunited with his family in Milan (Italy), where due to financial difficulties, his parents had moved with his little sister Maya. -
In 1900 he graduated and obtained the title of Professor of Mathematics and Physics. -
In 1901 he married Mileva Marić and had a daughter. -
In 1905 he published articles of great relevance to science: on the photoelectric effect, on Brownian motion and the theory of special relativity. -
In 1905 he finished his doctorate. -
In 1921 he won his first Nobel Prize in Physics. -
Einstein passed away in Princeton in 1955 leaving a scientific legacy that revolutionized the science of the 20th century and, for now, probably the 21st.