1) Albert Einstein was a renowned German-born physicist known as the father of modern physics. He developed the theories of special and general relativity that revolutionized scientific understanding of space, time, and gravity.
2) As a child in Germany, Einstein was fascinated by science and how the world worked, despite struggling in school. He later worked as a patent clerk in Switzerland which gave him time to study and develop his scientific theories.
3) Einstein published groundbreaking papers on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, and special relativity. His mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2 is one of the most famous scientific equations ever developed. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.