To the layman, Albert Einstein is a well known scientist. To the learned and educated especially in the area of physical science and the like, Albert Einstein is the one who formulated the famous formula that involves the speed of light and his general theory of relativity which is his greatest contribution in the world of physics. Here follows the Albert Einstein biography.

Albert Einstein was born to Hermann Einsrical parts. The Einstein family was a line of non-observant Jews and he spent his elementary days in a Catholic school in Luitpold Gymnasium where he was a top student. There was one moment in his life when he was around four or five years old when he saw a magnetic compass and his curiosity about how something is seemingly forcing the needles of the compass to deflect had been one of the incidents that led him to become a known and award winning scientist as he is today.

When the family business failed around 1894, his family moved to Italy and he continued to study in Aarau, Switzerland where he had quality physics teachers and facilities. In 1896, he studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and graduated as a mathematics and physics secondary school teacher in 1900. And two years later, he was accepted as a technical assistant in the Swiss patent office which is in Bern. While being employed in the Swiss patent office, he spent his spare time and maybe some of his office hours producing his own writings about theoretical physics without any kind of aid from the experts and facilities around him in his office. 

And in 1905, he got his doctorate degree at the University of Zurich after submitting one of his scientific works that he made during his spare time. 
Following the submission of another one of his scientific works to the University of Berne in 1908, he was appointed as a lecturer or Privatdozent there. By 1909 he was already appointed as an associate professor which is a regular appointment at the University of Zurich. And just as quickly, by 1911, he became a Theoretical Physics Professor at the German University of Prague. And then in 1914, he was appointed as the Director at the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesselschaft which is in Berlin. Albert Einstein indeed progressed a lot in just a short span of time. And while he proved his excellence in the area of physics through his own works and publications, he also had music as his past time and for relaxation. Albert Einstein is just as versatile as that. 

Albert Einstein married twice. In 1903, he was married to Mileva Marc and they had two sons and one daughter. In 1919, his marriage to Mileva Marc was dissolved and then he was married to his cousin Elsa Lowenthal.

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 leaving a remnant of his great works about relativity which is still now a fundamental concept in theoretical physics. And although many concepts have been later elaborated by other scientists, his contribution and his work still remain useful in deriving and explaining different concepts in theoretical physics today.