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WESTERLY — When electrical engineer Hermann Einstein and his wife, Pauline Koch, welcomed a son into the world in 1879, they probably didn’t have an inkling that one day the

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his services to theoretical physics and his discovery of the law of photoelectric effect in the year 1921.

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, on this day in history, March 14, 1879. He was just 26 years old when he proposed his groundbreaking theory of relativity.

Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. (Read Einstein’s 1926 Britannica essay on space-time.) Einstein’s parents were secular, middle-class Jews...

Many people call Albert Einstein a genius. But most people – even those who  call him a genius – don’t understand his discoveries well enough to explain them. For example, if you ask adults what Albert’s famous equation – E=mc² – means, most will have no idea.Lets take a look at how Albert got his […]

Entrepreneurs restart 1895 hydroelectric station to help drive enterprise serving Uber, Airbnb and others

The mill in Canneto sull’Oglio is again generating green energy, over a century after Hermann Einstein made the village one of the first in its region with electric streetlamps