Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German born Swiss-American theoretical physicist, philosopher and author born on 14th march 1879. He is one of the best known scientist and most influential intellectuals of all the times. He is also known as the father of modern science.

For his service to the theoretical physics and for the discovery of the photoelectric effect he won the Nobel Prize in 1921.

His contributions to physics include

Theories of relativity
Founding of relativistic cosmology
First post-Newtonian expansion
Explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury
Prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing
First fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules
Photon theory
Wave-particle duality
Quantum theory of atomic motion in solids
Zero-point energy concept
Semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation
Quantum theory of a monatomic gas
Einstein condensation.

Einstein has published more than 300 scientific works and over 150 non-scientific works.

His non-scientific works include:

About Zionism: Speeches and Lectures by Professor Albert Einstein (1930)? Why War?? (1933, co-authored by Sigmund Freud)
The World As I See It (1934), Out of My Later Years (1950)
A book on science for the general reader
The Evolution of Physics (1938, co-authored by Leopold Infeld)
Einstein additionally wrote and commentated prolifically on numerous philosophical and political issues.