Albert Einstein was a renowned German-born physicist and scientist. He was born in Ulm, Germany in 1879 and died in 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein is most famous for his theory of relativity and discovering the formula for the atomic bomb. He had a difficult childhood but went on to graduate in 1900 and work in a patent office. Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his services to theoretical physics.