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He was born in the Kingdom of Württemberg which was in the German empire. His dad's name was Herman and his mom's name as Pauline. A year later they moved to Munich.
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His uncle came to visit him when he was ten and brought him two books that sparked his love for science: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and Euclid's Elements.
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He and his future wife both attended Polytechnic, a science and math college. in 1905 he was awarded the Zurich Polytechnic teaching diploma.
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He discovered the theory of general relatvity that helped. This lead to particle theory and motion of molecules
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He applied his theory of general relativity to the universe as a whole which helped with discovering the shape, the rapid expanision at a decelerating rate, and stars, galexies and blackholes
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He won the nobel peace prize for the dicovery of the photoelectric effect and for all his work towards theoretical physics.
