Albert Einstein was arguably the most famous scientist of the 20th century. Most people are familiar with his iconic E=mc^2 equation, but his life and work encompassed so much more than that. For ...

We talked with historian of science Michael Gordin, Princeton’s dean of the college, who has taught the popular course “The Einstein Era,” about the life and times of Princeton's most famous resident, ...

No scientist in modern history looms larger in the public consciousness than Albert Einstein. Almost everyone knows who he was and what he looked like, at least toward the end of his life, when he ...

Legendary physicist Albert Einstein was a thinker ahead of his time. Born March 14, 1879, Einstein entered a world where the dwarf planet Pluto had yet to be discovered, and the idea of spaceflight ...

‘Since I was a boy, I’ve always gravitated to stories of travel and parts of the world that I knew very little about when I was growing up,” said film producer and director Taran Davies. The US-born ...

Albert Einstein is one of those people that seem like they have always existed and will always exist, like da Vinci or Chaucer. The world over, people instantly recognize his tufts of white hair and ...

The bizarre yet true story behind the theft of brain of the world's most famous scientist. The bizarre yet true story of the Princeton Hospital pathologist who in 1955 stole Albert Einstein's brain ...

Albert Einstein reminds us through this quote that true intelligence lies in clarity, not complexity. If you can explain an ...