I am definitely an Einstein groupie / junky. It's not just the hair though, I'm studying to become a physicist, so I can’t think of a better person to try and emulate. This page is just as a short synopsis: Einstein was born to a Jewish family on March 14, 1879 in Ulm Germany, when he died on April 18, 1955 he was a professor at Princeton University at New Jersey.

When he was still an infant when his parents moved from Ulm to Munich. In 1894 Einstein failed a test that would have allowed him to pursue a career as an electrical engineer at Zurich Polytechnic. After attending Aarau he graduated from Zurich Polytechnic in 1900 as a mathematics and physics teacher. From 1902 to 1909 he worked at the Swiss patent office in Bern Switzerland. Which, by the way, I visited in the summer of 1995. During his time there he produced a large number of papers in physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 1905. In 1908 he became a lecture at the University of Bern by sending in another paper. By 1909 Einstein was already well known in the German speaking physics society. He became a professor at the University of Prague and Zurich Polytechnic. In 1914 he gained the highest German speaking position for physics; professor at Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft in Berlin. He held this position until 1933. After that he held a free research position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey.

In 1905 he published three papers. The first was about the photoelectric effect which created the field of study called quantum mechanics. Which is named for the theories Einstein put forward to govern light, which he said traveled in energy packets called quanta. The second was his special theory of relativity. This was related to the idea that electrons expand when sped up, and thusly that mass and energy are equal. This was not an entirely original thought, he combined classical mechanics and Maxwellian electrodynamics. The third paper dealing with statistical mechanics, namely Brownian Motion. Which is the fundamentally random movement of certain particles in fluids or gases.

In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect. Although most thought his work on the Special and General Theories of Relativity was more important and original, it was to controversial for many physicists of the time. Einstein spent much of his later life working with the Grand Unified Field Theory. Which many believe will eventually define all forces and actions in our reality. But it is as of yet uncompleted.