Albert EinsteinProfessor, Department of PhysicsNobel Laureate

• PhDUniversity of Zurich1905
• MEdSwiss Federal Institute of Technology1901
• MAETH Zürich1900

• Theory of Relativity
• Quantum Mechanics
• Mass–energy equivalence (E = mc²)

• On November 12, 1913, Einstein was granted full membership in the Prussian Academy of Sciences. On March 28, 1933, he resigned membership, explaining in a letter to the academy that he did not want to be associated with the Prussian government of the time.
• On November 12, 1919, the University of Rostock awarded an honorary doctorate of medicine (Dr. med. h.c.) to Einstein. 
• In 1925 the Royal Society awarded Einstein the Copley Medal.
• In 1929, Max Planck presented Einstein with the Max Planck medal of the German Physical Society in Berlin, for extraordinary achievements in theoretical physics.
• In 1931, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, In 1934 Einstein gave the Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture.
• In 1936, Einstein was awarded the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal for his extensive work on relativity and the photo-electric effect.
• The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics named 2005 the "World Year of Physics" in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the annus mirabilis papers.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.