Albert Einstein was a renowned German-born physicist born in Ulm, Germany in 1879 and died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955. He is best known for his theory of relativity and E=mc2 equation. Einstein had three children with his first wife Mileva Maric and attended several schools in Switzerland including the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. He made major discoveries in physics including accurately describing Brownian motion and proving light has both wave-like and particle-like properties. Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 and his theories helped enable the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.