Albert Einstein

Birth Name:
Albert Einstein
Birth Date:
March 14, 1879
Birth Place:
Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire
Death Date:
April 18, 1955
Place of Death:
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, 1 Plainsboro Road, Plainsboro, New Jersey
Age:
76
Cause of Death:
Internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm
Cemetery Name:
Cremated
Claim to Fame:
Science
Albert Einstein was a renown German-born theoretical physicist, and regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time. Einstein is known widely for developing the theory of relativity, and contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics. Relativity and quantum mechanics are together the two pillars of modern physics. His mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 has been called "the world's most famous equation". He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".

Cemetery Information:

Final Resting Place:

Cremated

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North America

Grave Location:

Ashes scattered around the grounds of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

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