Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879, and died in 1955. He was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate, also known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well known scientist of the 20th century. Albert Einstein spent most of his youth in Munich, Germany, where his family owned a small shop that manufactured electric machinery. He did not talk until the age of seven, but even as a youth he showed a brilliant curiosity about nature and an ability to understand