Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Albert Einstein was the first child and son to Hermann and Pauline. The Einsteins were Jewish and had lived in southern Germany for over three hundred years. They had been tradesman and small business owners. In 1880, the family moved to Munich. The family the move was good for them. A year later Hermann and Pauline had a Maria and the family was happy. In 1894, Einstein's family …showed first 75 words of 685 total…

…showed last 75 words of 685 total…of Tullio Levi-Civita and Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro. Einstein called his new work the general theory of relativity. After a number of false starts he published late in 1915, the definitive version of general theory. When British eclipse expeditions in 1919 confirmed his predictions, the popular press loved Einstein. Einstein returned to Germany in 1914 but did not reapply for German citizenship. Einstein received the Nobel Prize in 1921 but not for relativity rather for his 1905 work on the photoelectric effect.