# Albert Einstein

- Id: `einstein`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/einstein/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `6230bbffe1f199bad2620939cfe5ffac3c3488e3fcc768083ec66322739c34d8`

## Summary

A theoretical physicist, Einstein transformed our account of space, time, and gravity, while writing directly about science, responsibility, and public life.

## Overview

Einstein died on 18 April 1955.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1879–1955",
    "era": "Early twentieth century",
    "distance": "71–147 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 76
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "science",
    "name": "Science and scientific thought",
    "detail": "Science / philosophy of science",
    "labels": [
        "Science and scientific thought",
        "Science",
        "philosophy of science"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1955,
    "display": "1955 CE",
    "reason": "Einstein died on 18 April 1955."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 10,
    "passages": 682,
    "languages": [
        "de",
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Ulm",
        "period": "1879",
        "description": "Birthplace.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Munich",
        "period": "1880-1894",
        "description": "Childhood and schooling.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Aarau",
        "period": "1895-1896",
        "description": "Cantonal school and formative year.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Zürich",
        "period": "1896-1901; 1909-1911",
        "description": "Polytechnic study and professorship.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Bern",
        "period": "1902-1909",
        "description": "Patent office and annus mirabilis papers.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Prague",
        "period": "1911-1912",
        "description": "University professorship.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Berlin",
        "period": "1914-1933",
        "description": "Prussian Academy, relativity and public life.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Princeton",
        "period": "1933-1955",
        "description": "Exile, Institute for Advanced Study and final home.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.einstein.caltech.edu/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Tokyo",
        "period": "1922",
        "description": "A major stop during the documented 1922-1923 travel diary journey.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/157824"
    },
    {
        "name": "Jerusalem",
        "period": "1923",
        "description": "Visited Palestine during the same documented journey.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/157824"
    },
    {
        "name": "Barcelona",
        "period": "1923",
        "description": "Spanish stop recorded in the travel diary.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.themorgan.org/literary-historical/157824"
    },
    {
        "name": "Singapore",
        "period": "1922",
        "description": "Port call on the documented journey to East Asia.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvc774b6"
    },
    {
        "name": "Buenos Aires",
        "period": "1925",
        "description": "Principal base during Einstein's month-long visit to Argentina.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0506052"
    }
]
```