Note: This feature originally appeared, in slightly different form, on NOVA's "Einstein Revealed" Web site, which has been subsumed into the "Einstein's Big Idea" Web site.

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.

Staff and volunteers with the Einstein Project in Green Bay put the final touches on nearly 400 science kits to be delivered to classrooms throughout Wisconsin.

A mushroom cloud towers over Nagasaki after the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945. Albert Einstein struggled with his role in the creation of the bomb and the devastation wrought by the U.S ...

Time Line of Albert Einstein's Life Einstein's Big Idea homepage. 1879 Born to ... Stays on in Munich to finish the school year after his parents move to Pavia, Italy. Lasts ...