| Born | 14 March 1879
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire |
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| Died | 18 April 1955 (aged 76)
Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
| Residence | Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United States |
| Citizenship | - Württemberg/Germany (1879-1896)
- Stateless (1896–1901)
- Switzerland (1901–1955)
- Austria (1911–1912)
- Germany (1914–1933)
- United States (1940–1955)
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | - Swiss Patent Office (Bern)
- University of Zurich
- Charles University in Prague
- ETH Zurich
- Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
- University of Leiden
- Institute for Advanced Study
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| Alma mater | - ETH Zurich
- University of Zurich
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| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Kleiner |
| Other academic advisors | Heinrich Friedrich Weber |
| Notable students | - Ernst G. Straus
- Nathan Rosen
- Leo Szilard
Raziuddin Siddiqui
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| Known for | - General relativity and special relativity
- Photoelectric effect
- Mass-energy equivalence
- Theory of Brownian Motion
- Einstein field equations
- Bose–Einstein statistics
- Unified Field Theory
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| Notable awards | - Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
- Matteucci Medal (1921)
- Copley Medal (1925)
- Max Planck Medal (1929)
- Time Person of the Century (1999)
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| Spouse | Mileva Marić (1903–1919)
Elsa Löwenthal, née Einstein, (1919–1936) |
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