Albert Einstein profoundly changed physics and ideas about space and time. Learn more about his life, theories and scientific impact.

Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955. ... Because of failed business ventures, the family moved several times during Einstein's childhood, finally to Italy when he was 15.

She wanted her child to become a scientist, too, and asked Dr. Einstein for his suggestions for the kind of reading the child might do in his school years to prepare him for this career.

Einstein and his wife had given away their first child, a daughter born before they were married, and were now trying to raise the second on a patent clerk's salary. Einstein was 26.

On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and destructive, inventions – the atomic bomb.