Albert Einstein, born on 14th March 1879, in Germany, was one of the most well-known and influential physicists of the 20th century.
The Nobel Prize awarding institution, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, decided to reserve the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, and therefore awarded no physics prize that year. According to the statutes, a reserved prize can be awarded the year after, and Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for 1921 one year later, in 1922. Einstein was unable to attend the December 10th Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm. He presented his Nobel speech on 11th July 1923, in Gothenburg.
Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. The second pillar is considered as the quantum theory. Einstein is best known by the general public for his mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2, which is considered “the world’s most famous equation”.
He died on 18th April 1955, at Princeton, US.
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