Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

Physicist Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity uprooted
centuries of settled science and laid the foundation for a new
era of achievement for mankind, was born to a prominent
Jewish family in Ulm, Germany, on this day in 1879.

Einstein 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".