Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc2 .He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Einstein was Jewish so while he was visiting the United States, Hitler came to power in 1933 so because of that he didn't go back to Germany, where he had been a professor at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. He settled in the U.S., becoming an American citizen.