Settles into a program of self-education at age 10 and begins reading as much about science as he can. Attempts to skip high school by taking an entrance exam to the Swiss Polytechnic, a top technical ...

Albert Einstein wasn’t just the scientific whiz behind a famous mathematical equation. He also loved music and fought for civil rights, long before it was a movement. Photograph by PictureLux/The ...

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).