Any list of the greatest thinkers in history contains the name of the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein. His theories of relativity led to entirely new ways of thinking about time, space, matter, energy, and gravity. Einstein’s work led to such scientific advances as the control of atomic energy and to some of the investigations of space currently being made by astrophysicists.
Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879, of Jewish parents. In 1905, at age 26, he published five major research
