Daily cosmobite: happy birthday Albert!

Published by Nick Lomb on March 14, 2013 No Comments

The famous scientist Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879 in Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany. He is best known for his work on special and general relativity. The well-known formula connecting energy with mass multiplied by the speed of light squared came out of his work on special relativity.

Albert Einstein at Madame Tussauds, London. Photo Nick Lomb

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