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1879-1955
Theoretical physicist. Born in Ulm, Germany, but completed his high school in Switzerland, where he went on to study at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich. In 1902 he took a job in the patent office in Bern, where he stayed for seven years. During this time he published a number of groundbreaking papers in physics, including the one for which he is best known, on the special theory of relativity. He was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1921. He became a Swiss citizen in 1921, but after Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933 he moved permanently to the US, where he took up residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. He became a US citizen in 1940.
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