One of the greatest scientists of the West was the German physicist Albert Einstein. U.S. citizen, lived from 1879 to 1955. From childhood he was shy and restless, did not excel in school and confronted the traditional teaching of rote learning. He graduated from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and 22 years got a job in the Bern Patent Office, which allowed him to have a modest salary and continue their research and scientific papers. Ente performed multiple formulations, are the equations describing the Brownian motion, the law of photoelectric effect, the kinetics of gases and revolutionary physical applications of the theory of relativity (in 1905) and general relativity ( 1916). He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
Despite the undisputed importance of the theories of relativity enunciated by Einstein, the scientist received the Nobel Prize for his research on the photoelectric effect, which states that the solids emit electrons when stimulated by light sources.
Since 1932, the noted scientist escaped Nazi persecution in advance. In Berlin, their property confiscated and banned his theories.
The theory of relativity, whose formula is E = mc2, was a hinge that Einstein settled in the scientific universe.
Persecuted by Hitler's regime because he was Jewish, left Germany, moved to the United States and taught at the Institute of Higher States of Princeton.