Albert Einstein

4/30 — Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").

6/30 — Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.

9/26 — Albert Einstein publishes his first paper on the special theory of relativity.

9/27 — The physics journal Annalen der Physik received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc².

11/21 — Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

3/20 — Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.

11/25 — Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

5/29 — Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

11/11 — Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

12/5 — German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

10/17 — Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.

8/2 — Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

3/14 — Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

4/18 — Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)