Wikipedia:VideoWiki/Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 to 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. He is best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc square, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire, on 14 March 1879. At 17, he enrolled in the four-year mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Zürich Polytechnic. Einstein's future wife, a 20-year old Serbian woman Mileva Marić, also enrolled at the Polytechnic that year .Einstein married Elsa Löwenthal in 1919, after having a relationship with her since 1912 .Einstein and Elsa emigrated to the United States in 1933.

On the eve of World War II, he endorsed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the potential development of "extremely powerful bombs of a new type" and recommending that the US begin similar research. This eventually led to the Manhattan Project. Einstein supported the Allies, but he generally denounced the idea of using nuclear fission as a weapon.

Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers and more than 150 non-scientific works. His intellectual achievements and originality have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with "genius".