Albert Einstein was a renowned German-born physicist. As a child, he showed great intellectual curiosity but struggled in school. In 1905, during his time working at a patent office, Einstein published three groundbreaking papers that changed modern physics. His theories of special and general relativity, as well as his discovery that E=mc2, revolutionized scientific understanding of space, time, matter and energy. Einstein dedicated his life to scientific discovery and advancing human knowledge. He is widely considered one of the smartest and most influential scientists of all time.