Albert Einstein

‘It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.’ Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics in the 20th centuary, an era often defined as the age of scinece. 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”.