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 ...

Einstein published more than 300 scientific papers along with more than 150 non-scientific works in his lifetime. His intellectual achievements and originality are so well known that his name has ...

Germany has honoured one of its most famous sons, paying tribute to Albert Einstein on the 125th anniversary of his birth. The Nobel physics laureate who developed the theory of relativity was born in ...

In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, the head of the Nazi party, became chancellor of Germany. Within two months, the Nazis had gained virtually total control of the country and had begun what would be a 12 ...

Einstein’s achievement, Bertrand Russell wrote in The Nation, was actually “to exclude what is relative and arrive at a statement of physical laws that shall in no way depend upon the circumstances of ...