Albert Einstein, the most popular physicist of the 20th century, was born on March 14th, 1879, in the city of Ulm, in the old GermanEmpire. Albert (we are among friends), was raised with his Jewish family in Munich. He was a quiet shy boy and he didn't learn to talk until he was 3 years old - nothing like his little sister Maya, who was lively and cheerful. This had his parents very worried - they even thought he had some kind of problem. Albert didn’t like playing with kids his same age, he’d rather be alone. And this… didn´t contribute to his parents not worrying about him. His uncle Jacob, a very creative engineer with great ideas, motivated his love for science, sharing with him all kinds of books and letting little Albert wander around his studio. When he was only 15 years old, with no mentor or guide, he started nothing less than the study of calculus. In 1894, the family business had to close down and his family had to move to Pavia (Italy), but without Albert, who still had to finish his studies. But this separation didn't last for long, Albert managed to get a medical certificate that allowed him to leave school and so get back with his family again. Two years later, he rejected his German nationality and he was considered stateless, so he could get away with not doing the military service. In 1896, he met Mileva Maric at the ZurichInstitute of Technology - she would become his wife later on. In January 1902, they had a daughter, in secret, since Albert’s parents never approved of his relationship with Maric. Little we know about their first daughter- people say she was given up for adoption in Serbia, Maric’s native country. In 1903, Albert and Mileva finally got married and a year later, his son Hans Albert Einstein was born. He’d moved to California to become a hydraulic engineer. In 1905, while Albert was still an unknown physician, he published his first Special Theory of Relativity. And as a deduction from this one, we have the most popularly known physics equation, E equals MC squared, the equation of mass-energy equivalence. That same year, he published some other works that would set the basis of statistical physics and quantum mechanics, not much as you can see...! In 1910, their third kid was born, EduardEinstein and Albert moved to Berlin, leaving his family in Switzerland. Ah! And meanwhile, he was named a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1915, he published his General Theory of relativity, which reformulated, completely, the concept of gravity. A couple of years after that, he’d confirm his theories about light curvature (córvature). This man never took a break! On October 14th, 1919, he divorced Mileva Maric. And two months later, he married his cousin Elsa Loewenthal… yes… you’ve heard right… his first cousin! 1921 was the year his work was officially recognized, and he was given the Nobel Prize in Physics - but not thanks to his general theory of Relativity, considered very controversial - it was thanks to his explanations about the photoelectric effect and its contribution to theoretical physics. In 1932, when the nazis took power, Albert moved to the US. That same year, his son Eduard, who was studying medicine, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital in Berlin. Albert tried, by all means, to take him with him to Princetown in the US, but the authorities prevented him from doing so. Eduard died in 1965 at the psychiatric hospital. In the US, Albert would then teach classes at the Institute for Advanced Study, and some years later, he’d become a citizen of theUnited States. On April 18th, 1955, Albert Einstein died in Princeton. During the autopsy, the forensic pathologist Thomas Harvey extracted his brain in secret and kept it hidden for 20 years, for possible future studies. Nowadays, some of those studies have resulted in curiosities - for example, Albert’s brain has more glial hormones in the Math skills area - or, part of his brain related to Maths is bigger than usual, and his lateral sulcus, a fissure that goes all the way from the front to the back, didn't make it all the way. Albert is also the father of the atomic bomb, tho he didn't participate in the program due to his pacifist ideology. He was, and still is, a very important character- his contribution to physics is still one of the most important ones. Genius and Figure, Albert Einstein will never stop fascinating us!