Beyond his scientific discoveries, he was an influential thinker and a figure deeply engaged with social and political issues.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer - Public Domain/Wiki Commons. Albert Einstein, everyone's favorite wild-haired genius with a ...

Throughout his life, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a pop star of science. He had his "Annus mirabilis" (Latin for "miracle year") in 1905 when at age 26 he'd published several groundbreaking works.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philosopher, humanitarian and physicist Albert Einstein is the subject of new TV series "Genius," which delves into the drama and passion of the man who developed the theory of ...

Over 85 years after it began, the Einstein-Bohr debate remains the most consequential intellectual rivalry in modern science — one that shaped quantum mechanics, redefined human understanding of ...

A new show from National Geographic will focus on the life of Albert Einstein, showcasing him as both an older and younger man, and with an eye towards his personal life -- not simply his scientific ...

"Sublime," at least in the sense Longfellow used it, hardly applies to Albert Einstein. Still, on the sands of the 20th century no footprints are larger, or less likely to be washed away, than those ...