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 ...

Most people know Albert Einstein as the mind behind E = mc². You might also have heard the story that he struggled in school or failed math. That image of a lone genius has stuck for years. But when ...

1996: The Sears Tower’s 23-year reign as the world’s tallest building apparently came to an end. Completed a month earlier than expected, steel spires were placed atop the twin Petronas Towers in ...

In Albert Einstein: Relatively Speaking, HAP, LLC presents Living Historian George Capaccio in a first-person, living history performance, entering the boundary-breaking universe that is the mind of ...

1.He had published his theory of special relativity in 1905 but took another ten years working out the mathematics of general relativity. 2.Special relativity is based essentially on the constant ...

Albert Einstein’s quote on questioning reveals why curiosity, critical thinking and lifelong learning matter for leaders in the AI age.

Albert Einstein is best known for his breakthrough on the theory of relativity which revolutionized modern physics. But there is also Einstein the man, said journalist and author Benyamin Cohen. In ...

Michael Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University and the Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. This spring, Gordin is teaching a class ...

Albert Einstein, creator of the theory of relativity, Nobel Prize winner and striver for world peace, is almost as well known for his physical appearance as for his epochal work in theoretical physics ...