Often they just gossiped about life at the patent office, and music, but today Einstein was uneasy. In the past few months a great deal of what he'd been thinking about had started coming together ...

Einstein published four notable papers during his “Miracle Year” in 1905 while he was working at a Swiss patent office: In his first paper, Einstein applied German physicist Max Planck’s ...

Just as popular legend has it, Einstein really was a patent office clerk when he conceived his radical theories — but he was also a doctoral candidate who spent his free time debating cutting ...

A lbert Einstein was an exceptional scientist but also a highly unconventional thinker whose life defied academic norms. In 1905, at just 26 years old, while working at the Swiss Patent Office ...

All these discoveries were a staggering achievement, and Einstein had made them all while working as a lowly patent expert at the Swiss patent office in Bern, sifting through the scientific and ...

Dr. Albert Einstein, the famed proponent of relativity and acknowledged leader of the science of mathematical physics, stands revealed on the records of the U.S. Patent Office as the inventor of a ...

Einstein came from a family of tinkerers—his uncle Jakob and father Hermann had invented new types of arc lamps and electricity meters—and he’d worked in the Swiss patent office for seven ...

Albert Einstein’s brain, Roland Barthes once wrote, “is a mythical object.” His genius is immortalized in the public ...

Photo: Getty Images After Albert Einstein graduated from college in 1900, he struggled to find work as a teacher and took a job at the patent office. (Even Einstein had to start somewhere.) ...

This period includes Einstein’s tenure at the Federal Patent Office in Bern, Austria, where he famously began composing what would become the Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein’s first ...

Often they just gossiped about life at the patent office, and music, but today Einstein was uneasy. In the past few months a great deal of what he'd been thinking about had started coming together ...